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Mountain School at Home “ACHOTUS” Ep3: Lucinda Davis

Mountain School at Home “ACHOTUS” Ep3: Lucinda Davis

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On November 19, join North Cascades Institute and

On November 19, join North Cascades Institute and Third Place Books as we welcome Jeff VanderMeer to the Lake Forest Park store for a conversation about "Absolution"—the surprise fourth volume in the Southern Reach series and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.

Jeff will be joined in conversation by Kim Fu, author of "Lesser-Known Monsters of the 21st Century".

📚 Seating is limited. RSVP today for this free, community event at https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/jeff-vandermeer

📚 Want to learn more about the Nature of Writing Speaker Series? Visit ncascades.org/events

#NatureOfWritingSpeakerSeries #authorreading #indiebookstore

Winter is coming… The yellow of the larches has g

Winter is coming…

The yellow of the larches has given way to the whites and grays of incoming winter in the higher elevations. Remember to #RecreateResponsibly as mountain weather can be unpredictable.

Are you looking forward to winter or wish fall would stick around longer? Drop a ❄️ for team winter or 🍁 for team fall in the comments.

📍Ancestral homelands of the Nlaka’pamux, Nooksack & Coast Salish people
📸: @mikereidphotography

Life has been coming pretty fast for a lot of us a

Life has been coming pretty fast for a lot of us and we’re left with all the feels. The days have become shorter and darker, rain falls more frequently (especially here in WA), the holiday season approaches, but there’s one thing that is always in season, gratitude. Practicing gratitude is easy and has positive benefits. Here’s a few:

🥰 It can improve your well-being. People who are grateful are generally happier, less stressed, and less depressed

🥰 It can improve your health. Gratefulness can lead to fewer health complaints, such as headaches, digestion issues, and sleep problems

🥰 Gratitude can help people deal with and bounce back from adversities with strength and motivation

🥰 Gratitude can help reduce stress hormones like cortisol and regulate the autonomic nervous system

There are many ways to practice gratitude like journaling, noticing positive moments as they happen, reliving positive moments by thinking about them or sharing them with others, telling someone you’re grateful for them in person.

Let’s practice the last two. Tell someone you’re grateful for them and/or relive a positive moment by thinking of it and sharing it with another. Feel free to share in the comments.

We’ll go first. Thanks to all of you who make up our community both online and in person. Sharing your adventures, thoughts, joys, struggles and knowledge of the North Cascades brings us both joy and appreciation to be a part of such a wonderful community. We appreciate you.

📸: @matthewcharchenko

Join @ncascades, @ravcron & @savewildsalmon for a

Join @ncascades, @ravcron & @savewildsalmon for a powerful evening with Rena Priest, an enrolled member of the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation and the sixth Washington State Poet Laureate (2021-2023). In this webinar, Priest will share from her new collection ‘Positively Uncivilized – Reciprocity in the Age of Extinction.’

From an Indigenous perspective, ‘Positively Uncivilized’ examines the impact of human inhabitants on the planet earth. Alongside personal accounts of the deterioration of salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest and the loss of Indigenous history, the twelve essays in her new collection emphasize the necessity of community to overcome the damage done by human socioeconomic andpolitical systems designed to isolate and shame those vulnerable to those unfair systems.

November 20 | 6:00 pm PT

🐟 An evening with Rena Priest, author of ‘Positively Uncivilized – Reciprocity in the Age of Extinction.’ 🪶

🔗 Register here: https://www.wildsalmon.org/events/reciprocity.html

Ah sunny days, what a beautiful thing! As we move

Ah sunny days, what a beautiful thing! As we move into November and the yellow beams of sunlight give way to the gray of clouds we can still bask in the memories of a sunny summer and continue to enjoy a colorful fall.

Looking back what is one of your favorite memories of summer or a highlight of fall so far?

📸: @pnw.onfilm

Let’s play a game! With the closure of State Rout

Let’s play a game!

With the closure of State Route 542 to Artist Point and snowfall in the higher elevations of the North Cascades, it begs the question when will State Route 20 close?

Depending on snow fall and avalanche forecasts the road could close anywhere from tomorrow to late November.

Give us your best guess on when you think State Route 20, North Cascades Highway will close? Winner gets the respect and admiration of your peers.

📍Ancestral homelands of the Nlaka’pamux, Syilx (Okanagan) & Methow people

📸: @brandy___marie

Looking for an inspiring read to cozy up with this

Looking for an inspiring read to cozy up with this autumn? Explore the transformative power of wilderness and discover your true nature during Nature of Writing Speaker Series events this month.

"Out There" by Lance Garland
Nov. 14 | 7pm at Third Place Books, Ravenna
Nov. 20 | 6pm at Village Books, Bellingham

"True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen" by Lance Richardson
Nov. 17 | 7pm at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park
Nov. 18 | 6pm at Village Books, Bellingham

RSVP and learn more about Nature of Writing at ncascades.org/events

Geekin out on Geese! ⁣ 🪿 Snow Geese are a fall st

Geekin out on Geese! ⁣

🪿 Snow Geese are a fall staple by the thousands in the Skagit Valley. That’s because they love open fields and bodies of water for their wintering grounds.

🪿 Snow geese breed from late May to mid-August, but they leave their nesting areas and spend more than half the year on their migration to-and-from warmer wintering areas. They migrate in large numbers, along narrow corridors, more than 3000 miles from traditional wintering areas to the tundra and vice versa.

🪿 Snow Geese make epic journeys by air, but they are impressive on foot, too. Snow Geese chicks are well developed when they hatch, with open eyes and down-covered bodies. They can swim and eat on their own within 24 hours and within the first three weeks of hatching, they may walk up to 50 miles with their parents from the nest to a more suitable area.

🪿 Snow Geese mate for life, choosing an individual of the same color morph as the family members they grew up with. The female incubates the eggs, spending 21 or more hours per day on the nest, while the male stands guard to defend the nest against predators. Common predators are, arctic and red foxes, Glaucous Gulls, Parasitic Jaegers, polar and black bears, & Snowy Owls.

Have you seen Snow Geese on their annual migration before? How would you describe the sight?

📍Ancestral homelands of the Sauk Suiattle, Swinomish & Upper Skagit people
📸: @mukul.soman

SAVE THE DATE! Raise a glass for outdoor education

SAVE THE DATE! Raise a glass for outdoor education this Giving Tuesday, Dec. 2, at Wander Brewing in Bellingham!

Join us for great beer, good company, door prizes, nature-themed holiday crafts and more! Wander will generously donate a portion of proceeds to the Institute and you can DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT by having donations matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $15,000. Cheers!

#NorthCascadesInstitute #outdooreducation #giveback

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