North Cascades Retreat - Sept 3-5 2008

Join your fellow Beach Watchers in a retreat at the "Top of the Watershed", North Cascades Institute, September 3rd - 5th, 2008

Take the slideshow tour

then call today to make your reservation
360-679-7391 or email beachwatchers@wsu.edu
(registration/payment due by July 1)
download registration form (.doc)

Price per person:	Includes:
$270 (triple room) $290 (double room) $370 (single room)	Two Nights Lodging Six Meals / Local Ingredients Diablo Lake Boat Tour Naturalist Led Activities

Need another nudge - listen to the first hand experience of Adam Lorio**

The natural beauty of the site alone is worth the drive up the valley. The peaks surrounding the center have inspired generations of famous writer and poets like Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac. From the campus you can see Colonial and Pyramid peaks, and Sourdough Mountain, site of a historic fire lookout. The small footprint of the campus (within North Cascades National Park) invites the non-human residents of the area to be part of the local community.
Chef Charles is a wonderful chef dedicated to using locally available food; his cooking is the main reason that I actually gained weight in grad school.

Some of my favorite early fall activities were hiking to the waterfall, exploring the deer creek loop trail, canoeing on Diablo Lake and watching the sunset down the Newhalem Gorge.

**Adam Lorio (Interpretive Specialist, Deception Pass State Park) worked/lived at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center on Diablo Lake as a graduate student in 2005. That experience has given him a unique perspective on his current work, just across from the mouth of the Skagit River.

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