2013 Instructor Exchange
Each winter, students at North Cascades Institute, Islandwood, and Wilderness Awareness School get together over three weekends, one gathering at each of our campuses, to share the …
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Coming Home
On the 28th of August the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center gained eight new residents—graduate students in cohort 12, ready to take on the mountains. For me, …
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A meeting of minds, a sharing of ideas
In cultures around the world, oral tradition plays an important role in teaching people about the world around them. Through storytelling, elders can warn listeners of potential …
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Green Fire: A History of Huxley College
by Bill Dietrich I’ve led a double life, writing about Nazis, pirates, and Napoleonic generals in my fiction but drawing on my newspaper experience to teach environmental …
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Exploring the Upper Skagit
Back row, left to right: Jacob Belsher, Elise Ehrheart, Sarah Bernstein, Mollie Behn, Susan Brown, Katie Tozier, Kiira Heymann, Erin Soper, Ashley Kvitek, Alex Patia. Front row, …
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Finding Our Inner Child
Despite the fact it seems like we just said goodbye to the final fall Mountain School group only a few weeks ago, the spring season is fast approaching. Staff …
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Poking Around in Wonder
Last summer, during the first quarter of our graduate program, our professor John Miles had us read several excerpts by author Kathleen Dean Moore, a philosophy professor …
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Mountain Schooling
Has it really been two months since the start of our fall Mountain School season? It seems like just yesterday I was welcoming my very first group …
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Coming full circle in the North Cascades
This is a time of transition. The warm summer season is changing as rapidly into a drenching autumn as is my progression from the residency with North …
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Summer's summit
What is a summit experience? For the 10th cohort of graduate students, in NCI’s residency program, the 9-day backpacking trip that culminated their first quarter of graduate …
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