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		<title>Starting Out Hot!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[August is here and so is the second session of Cascades Climate Challenge! As summer temperatures begin in earnest, the intrepid second session students have arrived and are getting set to head out into the field. After meeting at Seatac airport, we spent our first few days getting to know each other and our surroundings. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I saw the weasel&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Roloson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who have worked in environmental education, at a summer camp, or with kids you may have played the game, “Bob the Weasel.” You stand in a circle, shoulder to shoulder, with one person in the middle. The outside circle passes an object &#8211; the weasel &#8211; around behind their backs while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trying out twig tracking</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/trying-out-twig-tracking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelsi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalizing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Environmental Learning Center, the weather this week hints almost of spring. It is tempting to get swept away from the season at hand into those of the future. But winter is not a season to be wished away, it is a season to be savored. With snow’s presence lacking on the surrounding landscape, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rewriting Thanksgiving traditions</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/rewriting-thanksgiving-traditions/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/rewriting-thanksgiving-traditions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institute News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Getaways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every family has different holiday traditions.  Most families gather for a big meal on Thanksgiving. Some watch or play football. My family likes to run in a local “Turkey Trot”. But how many people go for a canoe ride in a 14-person voyageur canoe on Thanksgiving? This year, several families had that opportunity as participants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To embark into the dark</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/to-embark-into-the-dark/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/to-embark-into-the-dark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelsi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[night]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=3487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No longer are the flashes of headlights streaming across the darkened landscape. Sometimes there is moonlight. But when there is no moon, there is always the dark. Highway 20’s closure in November marks the coming of winter. Temperatures have steadily dropped to near or below freezing both day and night. This past week, the Environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Encounter with a black bear</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/encounter-with-a-black-bear/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/encounter-with-a-black-bear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black bear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diablo Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ferns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have found that with the oncoming winter ushering in shorter days and enduring rains, I have needed a greater sense of initiative to spend time outdoors naturalizing and experiencing the North Cascades for what it has to offer. It has become increasingly easy to allow myself respite from the day&#8217;s bite by spending time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A moment of snow</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/a-moment-of-snow/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/a-moment-of-snow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelsi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[deer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mushrooms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wildlife]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=3292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Each footstep crunching beneath the layers of newly fallen leaves has now transitioned to the soft silence of detritus, and of snow. Autumn’s transition to winter has been a tug of war. At the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center, the snowline has risen and fallen along hillsides like the lapping of waves against a shore. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This place, through their eyes</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/this-place-through-their-eyes/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/this-place-through-their-eyes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelsi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain School]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sensory awareness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=3245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You can feel them approaching. It is a surge of energy, a tidal wave of enthusiasm and wonder, about to overtake this place. The momentary quiet of the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center awaits eagerly the arrival of giggles and shouts, of singing and learning once more. Standing in the parking lot on a Monday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a walk can reveal</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/what-a-walk-can-reveal/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/what-a-walk-can-reveal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelsi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[snake]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=3069</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is as simple as taking some time for yourself. So often are we scheduled from dawn until dusk, moving from meeting to meeting, checking the clock for what event awaits us next. With hardly a moment to breathe, we are already looking past what is in front of us, skimming over what marvels may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magical Mountain School moments</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/magical-mountain-school-moments/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/magical-mountain-school-moments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corey White</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campfire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain School]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=3050</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the trickiest parts of being an instructor during a Mountain School session is how to properly transition from boisterous, high-energy games and songs to more quiet, less obviously engaging activities. Too abrupt a change and the high energy spills over into the supposed-to-be quiet activity. Since the boisterous activities are often fun equally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming the falling rain</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/welcoming-the-falling-rain/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/welcoming-the-falling-rain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelsi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=2803</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The rain, at first, came sweet and softly as if to tease, as if to taunt me. Light moisture perched upon my shoulder gave subtle call to damp and colder. No jacket yet, no need for shoes this region’s rain is common news. Yet, with each drop, it grew in size and as a blanket, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Art Afield</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/art-afield/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/art-afield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend was the Diablo Creative Arts Retreat: featuring courses on watercolors, nature journalling and silk painting. It was incredible! Our three amazing instructors were Molly Hashimoto (watercolors), Jocelyn Curry (nature journalling), and Kristen Gilje (silk painting). Our participants were given the difficult task of choosing only one subject to focus on for the weekend; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11th Annual Thunder Arm Writing Retreat: Rick, Kathleen, Jim and Holly in the North Cascades</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/writing-retreat-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/writing-retreat-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[North Cascades Institute is very fortunate to have so many talented and dedicated instructors leading a wide variety of classes, field excursions and retreats at the Learning Center and across Washington State this summer. Our goal is to help people of all ages experience and enjoy the mountains, rivers, forests and wildlife of the Pacific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memories from Mountain School</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/memories-from-mountain-school/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/memories-from-mountain-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=2036</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This spring I was given the task of organizing and coordinating Mountain School post-trip visits, where instructors visit the many classrooms of the students who participated in the program this season. These visits are designed to connect the students&#8217; experience at the Learning Center with their lives in the classroom and at home. Walking into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of the 2009 spring Mountain School</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/the-end-of-the-2009-spring-mountain-school/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/the-end-of-the-2009-spring-mountain-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meghann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=1914</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 Spring Mountain School session has come to an end. For the members of Cohort 8 our days of teaching abiotic and biotic lessons in the North Cascades National Park are finished, thankfully only in the formal Mountain School sense. Microscope labs, web of life, silent hikes and glacier lessons are things of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explosive deal for Fourth of July Family Getaway</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/explosive-deal-for-fourth-of-july-family-getaway/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/explosive-deal-for-fourth-of-july-family-getaway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institute News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=1875</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Diablo Lake, WA&#8211; In celebration of Independence Day, North Cascades Institute is offering the next 10 families of 3 or more who register for the Fourth of July weekend Family Getaway at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center $100 off the total registration fee! Gather your family in the North Cascades the weekend of July [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pyramid Lake trail&#8230;.a beautiful spring jaunt</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/pyramid-lake-traila-beautiful-spring-jaunt/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/pyramid-lake-traila-beautiful-spring-jaunt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=1819</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With a busy week behind us and another looming ahead Ian and I decided nothing sounded better than staying close to home.  Of course &#8220;staying close to home&#8221; while residing at the North Cascades Institute environmental learning center presents a handful of hiking and exploring options, ranging from technical climbs to lake side strolls.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging Diablo Downtime</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/1812/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/1812/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diablo Downtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diablo Lake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We here at Chattermarks are not the only people blogging about the North Cascades and our awe-inspiring wilderness campus on Diablo Lake; I stumbled upon this fine story at www.pacificnwseasons.blogspot.com recently: After several months working toward a big project deadline, I’m in dire need of some downtime in a beautiful setting. Give me craggy, towering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The colors of spring</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/the-colors-of-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 20:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[flowers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am always amazed at the difference a few days makes.  I leave the learning center for five days and come home to gentians, lilies and orchids!  Just wanted to share a few pictures and keep everyone up to date on what&#8217;s blooming in the North Cascades. (Top) Gentian and (above)Western Coralroot Fairy slipper Chocolate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Forest Voices</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/new-forest-voices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Cheerio~ Cheeriup~ Cheerio~ Cheeriup~&#8221; The American Robin&#8217;s song is a loud, optimistic voice of spring. However, at times here in the mountains it is difficult to hear the Robin because of the sheer number of springtime songsters! The colorful Varied Thrush sounds like someone unanswered phone in the woods. The tenacious Rufous Hummingbird buzzes, bugles [...]]]></description>
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