Summer 2024 Photo Round-up!
What a summer it’s been, jam-packed and overflowing with fun as Institute programs got folks outside exploring and learning in our wild backyard! A sampling of the …
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Posts about the Learning Center — including personal stories, weather, events, on-campus hijinks and more!
Winter 2023 Institute Photo Round-Up!
December’s first snow may have fallen on a quiet amphitheater, but we’re busy in every corner of the Institute—literally and figuratively! Operations and Housekeeping teams are still …
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Fall 2023 Institute Photo Round-Up!
The North Cascades Environmental Learning Center may still be closed to the public after this summer’s Sourdough Fire, but there’s a lot going on at the Institute! …
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Summertime at the Institute
Learning can feel a lot like play around here—that’s true all year long, but especially in summertime! It took real hustle to create those experiences this season …
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Welcome Back Overnight Mountain School!
How are you connected to the North Cascades? By MK Kirkpatrick-Waite In September 2022, North Cascades Institute will be opening our doors again to local 5th- and …
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Happy Trails Kristofer Gilje
In 2007, Kristofer Gilje began working for North Cascades Institute as a Facilities Manager at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center. His previous experience working at Holden …
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The Search for the Perfect Trail Bar
With the myriad of closures and cancellations surrounding the Covid pandemic over the past year-plus, the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center’s kitchen team has had to find …
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New videos on the History of the Learning Center
Do you think that a place can have a purpose? What does it look like when a place embodies an intention? Nestled into the Douglas firs and …
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“From Harvest to Table: Event highlights Latino farmers”
Chicken mole, homemade tortillas, green rice with chiles, a medley of beets, squash and chard, apple empanadas. These were some of the dishes shared Saturday at the …
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North Cascades Institute – A Nature and Learning Paradise
I’m feeling an inward thrum, a tingling aliveness, from my time beneath the majestic peaks of the North Cascades mountains. Last month, I served as creative resident …
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