March 2019 Photo Round Up!
We are all connected by our common understanding of the calls filling the night at the start of Spring. It is the wordless voice of longing that …
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October 2018 Photo Roundup!
It’s officially Fall here in the North Cascades, and October provided plenty of reminders of the new season. The month began with some chilly temperatures, and even …
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Gary Snyder’s “August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer”
“August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer” Poem by Gary Snyder from The Back Country; a reading by Rob Rich You hitched a thousand miles north …
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Tim McNulty's "Night, Sourdough Mountain Lookout"
“Night, Sourdough Mountain Lookout” Poem by Tim McNulty; a reading with Rob Rich A late-summer sun threads the needles of McMillan Spires and disappears in a reef of …
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On the Lookout for Unalloyed Pleasure: Poets in the North Cascades circa 1950s
North Cascade Institute’s graduate Cohort 13 recently hosted our annual Instructor Exchange with other students and teachers from IslandWood and the Wilderness Awareness School. As part of …
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Fresh Tracks of the Sun Chaser
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 …
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Poems from Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Guest post by Tim McNulty Longtime Institute writing instructor, naturalist and poet Tim McNulty will travel from his home on the Olympic Peninsula to Village Books in …
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A week in the woods
Scott Kirkwood is editor in chief of National Parks Magazine, a quarterly publication produced by the National Parks Conservation Association, a nonprofit advocacy organization headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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Practice, Practice, Practice: Writing and Meditation in the North Cascades
By Holly Hughes Editor’s note: Holly is co-leading the October 12-14 workshop “Sit, Walk, Write: Nature and the Practice of Presence” at the Learning Center — only …
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Gary Snyder and "Riprap" book give-away
If you know anything about Gary Snyder, then you can understand why we here at North Cascades Institute are incredibly excited about his forthcoming visit to Seattle …
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