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Aug 6, 2020North Cascades Institute

What makes boats so charming, so timeless, and so convivial? Let us travel backward along the river of time to the late 1920’s when the Skagit River …
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Aug 14, 2018Christian Martin

North Cascades Institute partners with North Cascades National Park and Seattle City Light to develop and implement the curricula, training, marketing and registration for Skagit Tours. We …
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Aug 12, 2018Kiley Barbero

My family is all about Skagit Tours, having taken the Diablo Lake & Lunch Cruise in 2017, they were determined to get back for another tour. This …
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Jul 17, 2018Special Guest

By Alvaro Guillen for La Raza del Noroeste Si cree que las opciones de entretenimiento y paseos en el noroeste se le están agotando este verano, piénselo …
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Apr 25, 2016Institute Graduate Student

We are the North Cascades Institute. And if you are reading this blog you are somehow affiliated with or are curious about our organization devoted to environmental …
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Mar 9, 2016North Cascades Institute

As we ready for our 30th spring and summer of offering outdoor explorations and learning adventures in the North Cascades, we acknowledge another important anniversary too: the …
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Mar 7, 2016Institute Graduate Student

As the snow is melting and the trees are budding, our Naturalist Team is getting ready for teaching in the mountains. At the North Cascades Institute‘s Environmental …
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Jul 20, 2012Special Guest

The glorious summer weather that makes Western Washington one of the best places in the country to be finally arrived on July 4! North Cascades Institute is …
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May 19, 2012Special Guest

Days are growing longer and birdsong is filling the mountain air as the North Cascades awaken from the long winter. With the Washington State Department of Transportation …
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Aug 10, 2011Special Guest

Seattle City Light’s Skagit Tours has added a guided van-and-hiking day tour of its Skagit hydroelectric project and nearby falls, gorges and viewpoints of the North Cascades.
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