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Wilderness medicine courses at the Environmental Learning Center

Wilderness medicine courses at the Environmental Learning Center
Oct 18, 2018North Cascades Institute

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“Follow the yellow larch trail.”​​​​​​​​
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For those of you who need a little yellow in your life right now. Throwback to larch season because why not. ​​​​​​​​
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📸: @weeden_wanders
Online Feb 15: SNOWY OWL — A VISUAL NATURAL HIST Online Feb 15: SNOWY OWL — A VISUAL NATURAL HISTORY

North Cascades Institute is thrilled to again host award-winning wildlife photographer @paulbannick in our virtual venue for an intimate visual exploration of the life history of the Snowy Owl.

Through video, sound, and dozens of never-before-published images of the “Arctic Owl”, Paul will help us understand how Snowy Owls survive, breed and live alongside other wildlife on the Arctic tundra and in wintering areas further south. Paul’s startling photos show behaviors, such as courtship displays, that have only been seen before in illustrations. We will also look at how Snowy Owls compare to other North American Owls and what can be done to help them thrive. 
 
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#birdingphotography #birdphotography #snowyowls #snowyowl #wildlifephotography #owls #owlsofinstagram #onlinelearning #virtuallearning #environmentaleducation #northcascadesinstitute
Happy #mountainmonday!​​​​​​​​ ​ Happy #mountainmonday!​​​​​​​​
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Most people have heard of Koma Kulshan (Mount Baker), but have you heard of Mount Blum seen in this photo looking fresh in its winter glow? ​​​​​​​​
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🏔️ Mount Blum is a 7,685-foot summit on the western edge of North Cascades National Park. It is the highest summit of a string of mountain peaks located east of Mount Shuksan and west of the Picket Range​​​​​​​​
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🏔️ Mount Blum was named after John Blum, a United States Forest Service fire patrol pilot who perished in a plane crash near Snoqualmie Pass in 1931​​​​​​​​
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🏔️ Two small active glaciers rest on its northern flank, which are split by a long ridge, and several other ice sheets scattered across high basins and cirques​​​​​​​​
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🏔️ Blum Creek, drains north and west off Mount Blum and flows into the Baker River, which in turn flows into the Skagit River. Steep cliffs and drop-offs in the valleys produce some extremely tall waterfalls, such as 1,680-foot Blum Basin Falls​​​​​​​​
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🏔️ Mount Blum is composed of extremely firm granite. This intrusion is common throughout the range, and is much stronger than the looser rock that makes up Mount Shuksan and the Picket Range.​​​​​​​​
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📍Ancestral homelands of the Nlaka’pamux & Nooksack people ​​​​​​​​
📸: @longbachnguyen
EMTs and Advanced Providers looking to enhance ski EMTs and Advanced Providers looking to enhance skills in backcountry medicine should check out these course offerings from @remotemedicaltraining this February:

⛑ Feb 6-11: RMAP - Remote Medicine for Advanced Providers Course // Perfect for paramedics, physicians, nurses and others who have extensive front-country medical experience and want to learn more about the unique demands of remote medicine. 

⛑ Feb 13-17: RMUR - Remote Medicine Upgrade and Recertification Course // Developed for EMTs who would like a remote medicine upgrade, or current Remote EMTs who need to re-certify.

Both are hosted at the Environmental Learning Center on Diablo Lake in North Cascades National Park, the ideal setting for scenario-based training. Includes lodging, delicious meals, and access to nearby winter recreation.⠀

LEARN MORE: ncascades.org/wilderness-medicine

📍The Environmental Learning Center is located on the ancestral homelands of the Upper Skagit, Nlaka’pamux, Sauk-Suiattle, and Swinomish peoples

#remotemedicaltraining #remoteemt #emttraining #wildernessmedicine #emergencymedicine #beprepared #wfr #wildernessfirstresponder #wildernessfirstaid #safetyfirst #outdoorsurvival #learnoutside #teachoutside #northcascades #northcascadesnationalpark #northcascadesinstitute
Base Camp Learning & Lodging begins this March at Base Camp Learning & Lodging begins this March at SHOULDER SEASON pricing! 

Stay and play in the heart of the North Cascades National Park complex with meals and lodging at the Environmental Learning Center. Each night includes:

🌲 Private room in our comfortable lodges
🌲 Scratch-made meals in our lakeside dining hall
🌲 Seasonal outdoor learning activities
🌲 Easy access to North Cascades trails and recreation

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📸: Spring Base Camp guests; Sonia Abreu

📍Ancestral homelands of the Upper Skagit, Nlaka’pamux, Sauk-Suiattle and Swinomish peoples
While North Cascades National Park is not a certif While North Cascades National Park is not a certified Dark Sky park, you can still get some amazing night sky views. ​​​​​​​​
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Taken last July you can see Jupiter rising above Mount Shuksan amidst a strong Airglow. ​​​​​​​​
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🌌 Airglow is the natural “glowing” of the Earth’s atmosphere. It happens all the time and across the whole globe. There are three types of airglow: dayglow, twilightglow and nightglow. Each is the result of sunlight interacting with the molecules in our atmosphere, but they have their own special way of forming.​​​​​​​​
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🌌 The chemistry behind nightglow is a bit different thanks to a process called, chemiluminescence. Chemiluminescence is a term for light that is generated as a product of a chemical reaction, which can result in several different colors produced like the green seen in this photo. ​​​​​​​​
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🌌 To maximise your chances of spotting airglow, you’ll want to take a long-exposure photograph of a clear, dark, night sky. Airglow can be spotted in any direction that is free of light pollution, at about 10⁰-20⁰ above the horizon.​​​​​​​​
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Have you ever witnessed Airglow in the North Cascades before? Leave a 🌌 in the comments. ​​​​​​​​
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📸: @electriceye.photography
Add new dimension to time spent in nature by learn Add new dimension to time spent in nature by learning about the adaptations of various birds, animals and plants that thrive in winter across the North Cascade region.

❄️ EXPLORING THE WINTER WORLD // Online with Gina Roberti, March 1

This virtual class will help you hone your field observation skills and provide new insights, stories and clues that create deeper connection to the winter world. What’s playing on our senses? Who else is out here? What might they be up to, and which behaviors are unique to winter? Gina Roberti is back to help us answer these questions and more!

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📸 Juliane Liebermann
Happy #wildlifewednesday! Check out these up clos Happy #wildlifewednesday!

Check out these up close and personal photos of a red breasted sapsucker. Want to know more about these cool birds? I’m glad you asked!!

🪶 Adults have a red head and upper chest and a white lower belly and rump. They are black on the back and wings with bars; and have a large white wing patch. 

🪶 They nest in tree cavities and prefer old growth forest. Their breeding habitat is usually forest that includes pine, hemlock, Douglas-fir, fir, and spruce, though they are known to use other woodland habitats.

🪶 Red breasted sapsuckers require living trees to provide the sap on which they feed. A sapsucker's tongue is adapted with stiff hairs for collecting the sap and they also eat the insects attracted to it.

Red breasted sapsuckers are common in Washington, have you ever seen or heard one?

📸: @misa_mgphotos
“When views like this make waking up at 5 am wor “When views like this make waking up at 5 am worth it.”

What kind view is worth it for you to get up at 5am? Misty forests, alpine start to summit snowy peaks, lakeside stillness, mountain sunrise? 

Tell us in the comments. 

📸: @withnamd
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