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Sharing the Experience: Creative Resident Recognized in 2018 Photo Contest

Sharing the Experience: Creative Resident Recognized in 2018 Photo Contest

Feb 15, 2019Matt Ferrell

In pursuing our mission to inspire and empower environmental stewardship for all through transformative experiences in nature the North Cascades Institute boasts a wide range of programs aimed …
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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

REGISTER: ncascades.org/basecamp

📸: 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.

Taken last July you can see Jupiter rising above Mount Shuksan amidst a strong Airglow.

🌌 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.

🌌 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.

🌌 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.

Have you ever witnessed Airglow in the North Cascades before? Leave a 🌌 in the comments.

📸: @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!

SIGN UP: ncascades.org/online

📸 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

Hey #owllovers, there’s still time to sign up!

Hey #owllovers, there’s still time to sign up!

🦉 OWLS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST - Online, Jan 26

Photographer Paul Bannick will be with us this Thursday to provide a look into the lives of owls through rare and dramatic images, video, sound, and stories from the field. We’ll follow owls over the course of a year and witness each stage of life: courtship, mating, and nesting in spring; fledging and feeding of young in summer; dispersal and gaining independence in fall; and, finally, winter’s migrations and competitions for food.

Paul’s work helps inspire conservation and education efforts, and helps spread awareness about the threats facing these iconic birds and what we can do to protect them.

Register for this and SNOWY OWL: A VISUAL HISTORY on Feb 15 >> ncascades.org/online

#birdingphotography #birdphotography #owls #snowyowl #owlsofinstagram #onlinelearning #virtuallearning #environmentaleducation #owllover

This IS a serious question: Do you have the first

This IS a serious question: Do you have the first aid skills to keep you and your crew safe in a backcountry emergency? Adventure with confidence by getting your H-WFR certification.

This training combines online and in-person instruction provided by @remotemedicaltraining and is hosted at the Environmental Learning Center on Diablo Lake in North Cascades National Park. Includes lodging, delicious meals, and access to nearby winter recreation.

Not only will you be learning essential backcountry medical skills, you’ll also be in one of the most beautiful class settings you can get!

Learn more about 2023 Wilderness Medicine Courses >>
ncascades.org/hwfr

📸 Carson Yach

📍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

It’s a winter wonderland out there.

It’s a winter wonderland out there.

What winter adventures are you going on this weekend?

📸: @jaguilera66

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