On my first teaching day of fall Mountain School I was terrified. I was completely smitten with the amazing North Cascades ecosystem I’d just spent all summer …
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I got the opportunity to meet our newest cohort of graduate students on their first day of class last month and was able to spend some time …
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After a week in San Francisco, I returned to North Cascades Institute just in time for Jocelyn Curry’s Artful Map class. I had no idea what to …
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I’ve spent two weeks at North Cascades Institute now, and I’m starting to feel like a member of the pack. But it took a while. I was …
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I live in a stunning place. On clear days, slate colored mountains capped in white meet blue skies in a crisp line and from there melt into …
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Right now the Learning Center is transitioning from spring into summer, though the weather might not always show it. All of the graduate students in cohort 12, …
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Scott Kirkwood is editor in chief of National Parks Magazine, a quarterly publication produced by the National Parks Conservation Association, a nonprofit advocacy organization headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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So, what are Group Rentals? Great question! In a nutshell, it’s a unique program that gives you the opportunity to create your own custom event at the …
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As winter comes to an end and we transition into the spring and summer months, something really exciting happens. I’m not talking about plants flowering and birds …
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While I have personally never beheaded a chicken, I’ve definitely heard the saying, “running around like a chicken with its head cut off,” but I have never …
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