By Nika Meyers, Youth Leadership Adventures Field Instructor Our journey into the wild started with an incredible boat ride on the Mule boat on Ross Lake to …
Read More of Backpacking Beavers in the North Cascades : Youth Leadership Adventures Trip Report #1
The glow begins as it would, blanching the sky to make invisible the cosmos. Black becomes cornflower and a fiery fuchsia lights the very highest tips of …
Read More of Fresh Tracks of the Sun Chaser
They met on July 17, 2013, not quite sure what to expect. Six talented young women, all alumni of programs like North Cascades Institute’s Cascades Climate Challenge and North …
Read More of The Cedarosas Take On North Cascades National Park
A group of Base Camp participants, Carla (a fellow summer naturalist), and I piled into a North Cascades Institute vehicle one morning in August. We were in …
Read More of Thank you, North Cascades Institute. Sincerely, a loving intern
I met them on August 1st. Twenty bright new faces arrived on buses and vans at the Wilderness Information Center in Marblemount. As they walked quietly out …
Read More of Science, Sustainability, Singing, Stir-fry, and Snacks!
Today is my last day of living at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center—my home since the spring of 2010 when I started working for North Cascades …
Read More of Saying goodbye…for now
Five weeks seems like a long time to spend in the North Cascades, but as the final days of my sabbatical from National Parks magazine approached, I …
Read More of Long Goodbyes
When I first learned that I would be leading a Youth Leadership Adventures course on Baker Lake, I was a bit…wary. Don’t get me wrong—I knew Baker …
Read More of Falling in love with the forest
Cultural differences, language barriers, scalding heat, strong headwinds, steep climbs, heavy backpacks, illnesses, and injuries were some of the challenges not just overcome but conquered by the …
Read More of Tales from the Diablo Divas
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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