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Third time’s a charm. After two previous attempts, finally summited Mt. Adams this morning. And of course, upon reaching the second highest peak of the Pacific Northwest, waiting for me was a spectacular view of the highest. Fuck you, Mt. Rainier.
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Natural Dye Workshop today with Cascade Mountain School and the talented Julie Beeler unidola! Very fun and super informative! #naturaldye #foraging #cascademountainschool #color #fallfoliage #columbiarivergorge #troutlake #makersgonnamake #weaversofinstagram #knittersofinstagram
Apparently starting a sunrise series this week, #2
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Deep mangoes, oranges, and peaches of the rising sun reflecting off the clouds, off the water, and into my eyes •
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#landbetweenthelakes #naturephotography #nature #nationalrecreationarea #sunrise #fog #lakebarkley #tennessee #contrast #reflection #reflectionphotography #explore #hiking #naturegram #burnoff #mtadamsinstitute #vetswork #nationalforest #forestservice #clouds
More natural dyeing - with the Cascade Mountain School and Julie Beeler. Hunting, gathering, preparing, creating, recording! A great day!#naturaldyeing unidola #cascademountainschool #foraging #fall #rosehips #mushrooms #naturalcolors #makersgonnamake #littleweavingsco #textilespluscolor #troutlake #naturalworld
Repost from mtadamsinstitute using RepostRegramApp - Our VetsWork members crushed it at our service project with Sandy River Watershed Council! 💪🏻 We spent the day prepping native turtle habitat enclosures and mulching close to 1,000 native trees to help them grow this spring!
#mtadamsinstitute #vetswork #americorps #serviceproject #volunteer #pnw #sandyriver
Today’s school consisted of more wet on wet painting after we read a few books with winter landscapes and Scandinavian illustration. We had multiple conversations through the day of how people celebrate and prepare for winter around the world. And then the kids painted! I absolutely love how they create really beautiful and expressive paintings. We seriously need to have an art gallery for everything they have made this year! Stay. Tuned for pictures. I taught them how to make “speckled stars” in their winter landscape paintings. 😊 #kidart #homeschool #homestudio #messykids #happykids #cascademountainschool
Someone is not amused of me leaving #catsofinstagram #newadventures #hawaiitooregon #tuxedocatsofinstagram #movingagain #mtadamsinstitute #blackbeard
And here are the finished paintings! Eliza’s is the top one and she titled it “SNOWSTORM RAINSTORM” (“it’s about the snow storm taking care o the pack of little snow squirrels”- Eliza) and Sam’s one on the bottom is called “BIRTH OF THE NIGHT DRAGONS SUNSET” (“mom it’s the sunset that happens at midnight o my when a night dragon is born”-Sam ) #creativekids #kidart #homestudio #homeschool #cascademountainschool
Happy Valentine’s Day! We ❤️Mount Adams, the natural world, and our local community!
#mtadamsinstitute #valentines #love #outdoors #pnw
Italian honey bees in white salmon, WA. Today #cascademountainschool students learned a queen honey bee will lay 1 egg every 28 seconds as long as honey is flowing.
Sundays are for exploring.
10/10 would travel to a place recommended by a gas station attendant. 😅 ➡️
Sorry California, happy cows actually come from Washington. Land of Milk and Honey specializes in grass fed raw milk along with grass fed beef. Pictured here are Jerseys, Angus, and Holstein steers. #cascademountainschool
Heck of a week with the #mtadamsinstitute in Washington. I start an internship with the US Forest Service on Monday
This lucky jersey calf gets to grow up on pasture and will be milked twice a day. She will primarily eat grass, and only eat grain when milked. I have come to be a huge supporter of organic dairy, especially the organic valley label which is a farmer owned cooperative. #cascademountainschool
Basecamp at 8500ft called “lunch counter” on Mt. Adams looking over a smoke hazed Mt. Hood #mtadams #pnwonderland #washingtonstate #cascades #volcano #summit #alpinestart #mountain #hiking #climbing #giffordpinchot #mtadamsinstitute
Ominous view of Adams on the first day of Mountain Camp #meandtheboys #cascademountainschool #PNW
Went on my first real-life snipe hunt this evening. Empty nets, but we'll try again soon #woodcock #vetswork #mtadamsinstitute #mistnetting #americorps
Missing camp
#cascademountainschool
Getting put to work thanks to this winter storm that has blown threw. In my opinion not that significant of a winter storm to be deemed "snow day" worthy here in the upstate, BUT! This gives me an excuse to get some chainsaw time.
Super saturated soil +
Top heavy trees from ice =
LOTS of blow downs on roads that must be cleared
#ilovemyjob #MtAdamsInstitute #VetsWorkenvironment #AmericorpsWorks #Americorps #Chainsaw #keepitwild #LeaveNoTrace #MakingTheForestSafeAgain #workinghardtoplayharder
Trying to prevent hat shadow lol. Out in Trout Lake, WA for a place-based education training with the Cascade Mountain School. #troutlake #cascademountainschool #placebasededucation #summer #pnw #squint #nofilter #mtadams
we got some much needed rain this morning and boom, instantly it was fall on the refuge
She’s off for her school overnight trip! She handled all of her own packing and I am fully confident that means she’ll have at least 95% of the things she really needs. Girlfriend is on top of it! #urchinadventures #montessorikids #overnightfieldtrip #cascademountainschool
Rocking my new favorite shirt at work today! 😍😍 Had an amazing opportunity to talk to this years VetsWork Environment interns during their training week and I am so stoked for the opportunities waiting for them when they get to their service sites! I was able share how amazing the program truly is and how it helped me become a permanent employee with the US Forrest Service. 🌲
The #MtAdamsInstitute Staff gifted me with this awesome shirt as a thank you. Now I can represent my favorite non-profit! I'm an Alumni of the program dressed in style. 😁
#Ilovemyjob #VetsWorkEnvironmentAlumni #VetsWorkEnvironment #AmericorpsWorks #CorpsWorks
Swinging into the holidays and giving season! #Givingtuesday is one week away and we’ve got great news! If we can raise $2,500 for our capital campaign by December 31st, an amazing anonymous donor will MATCH IT! So mark your calendars and consider connecting people to the natural world by supporting our pavilion project! Link in bio for more info.
#givingtuesday2019 #mtadamsinstitute #giving #dec3 #cascademountainschool #nature #connection #education
Got to spend five days out with the wilderness trail crew from the Chelan ranger district. Became crosscut saw certified carried around a pack with 65lbs of trail equipment and gained a ton of knowledge and skills when it comes to trail Maintenance. #mtadamsinstitute #usfs #lakechelan
The Midsummer’s Dream Camp is off to a great start! We made a lot of nature art today and prepped for our big celebration performance at the end of the week!
#midsummer #nature #art #frames #mtadamsinstitute #outdooreducation #theater #camp #cascademountainschool
Starting to love this job! #mtadamsinstitute #forestservice #forest #vetswork #virginia #fire #timber #publiclands #americorps
Harvesting fruits, veggies, herbs and flowers from home - and cookin em up for the young inspired youth that are learning about sustainable farming, resource management and compassion for the earth at Cascade Mountain School! A true farm to table dinner grown with intention🌿 #fruitionseason #harvest #cascademountainschool #bethechangeinspired #organicmedicine
Sometimes I cut down dead trees. And so far, I only take pictures of about half of them on the ground.
Walnut ~13in dbh. #stihlchainsaw 362
#mtadamsinstitute #vetswork
Summer camp registration is OPEN!
Visit the link in bio to view camps and register.
Also note that we have integrated the Cascade Mountain School website into our Mt. Adams Institute website! Make sure to use the link in bio.
#mtadamsinstitute #cascademountainschool #summer #summercamp #camp #outdoor #education
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods. There is rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea and music in its roar. I love not man the less, but Nature more.” –Lord Byron #forestservice #americorps #mtadamsinstitute #vetswork #nature #nofilter #hashtag
This weeks #TBT is from the 2014 Cascade Mountain School, Science of Stewardship program. High school students backpacked through the Mt. Hood National Forest while conducting meaningful ecological research. The Cascade Mountain School offers a variety of summer camps that give participants the chance to learn new skills, make lifelong friends, and become more connected to themselves and the natural world. Registration for the 2017 season is open! Go to: cascademountainschool.org for more information! #mtadamsinstitute #cascademountainschool #summercamps #mthood #science #stewardship
Absolute great time with these guys. So glad to start working with them. #vetswork #mtadamsinstitute #americorps #forestservice #landbetweenthelakes #fun #communityservice #serve #publicservice
#throwbackthursday to Cascade Mountain School's 2016 Nature Art Camp! This year, CMS is offering a similar camp called Recycled Art where students will work with recycled and repurposed material to make beautiful works of art! This camp will inspire artistic spirit while gaining an appreciation for the things we throw away. Students will get the opportunity to feel like real artists in a local Trout Lake art studio as they create their magical masterpieces. Registration is open at cascademountainschool.org! #mtadamsinstitute #cascademountainschool #recycledart #summercamp #registernow #tbt
My internship is cooler than you think... Patrolling the dunes, closing off unauthorized trails, making new trails, updating & cleaning staging areas and making sure offroaders are doing the right thing... and that's only a short list of what we do!
View is from around cleawox facing the flats & ocean then south to sitcoos!
#oregon #oregoncoast #intership #americorps #mtadamsinstitute #vetswork #usfs #southjetty #oregondunes #jobsforveterans #usveterans
Our MacGyver camp wrapped up today with a lesson focusing on electricity! Here the campers learn about static electricity as they try to pick up various materials with balloons. #macgyvercamp #cascademountainschool #mtadamsinstitute #naturalengineers #electricity
A hard day at work.... becoming ATV certified, adding in some UTV time, then checking our fencing and noise buffer signs. I get paid to do this! Best. Job. Ever. 😎
#mtadamsinstitute #americorps #siuslawnationalforest #oregondunes #paidinternship #veteranjobs
The holiday season is approaching, and so is #givingtuesday ! This year, we're launching a new Capital Campaign – The Education & Dining Pavilion Project, and invite you to join us in the journey!
This project will increase our education and dining space, as well as extend our program season. Stay tuned for ways you can support the campaign this giving season and mark your calendars for Giving Tuesday on December 3rd!
#mtadamsinstitute #connect #support #vetswork #greencorps #publiclandsstewards #cascademountainschool
I enjoyed my time at Mt. Adam's over the course of last year and it was such a fun atmosphere to work in. I met a lot of friends. #mtadamsinstitute #vetswork
As we get excited for Cascade Mountain School's September Mushroom Community Workshop, here's a #TBT photo of successful foraging from a 2015 VetsWork mushroom hike! #mtadamsinstitute #cascademountainschool #mushrooms #forage #community
We’re hiring an Education Programs Director staff position here in Trout Lake! Check out the link in our bio for position description and application details! #mtadamsinstitute #hiring #jobopening #job #education #programdirector #cascademountainschool
#GivingTuesday is next week and we have some great news. . . Our board is going to DOUBLE the donations we receive with a Matching Gift Challenge! So mark your calendar and double your impact for Cascade Mountain School scholarships! #mtadamsinstitute #cascademountainschool #getkidsoutside #connecttonature
Meet VetsWork member Keoni Fierro who is serving on the Malheur National Forest.
As Keoni gazes across this alpine lake, he reflects on his internship experience. “I wake up motivated and excited to go into work simply because I know I will be out in the forest helping care for our public lands.” #mtadamsinstitute #vetswork #americorps #veteran #internship #publiclands #malheur #service
We are very excited to announce that our amazing supporters contributed $3,450 yesterday for Giving Tuesday!
Given the Board Matching Challenge of $3,000, you helped raise a total of $6,450 in scholarship funds to get local kids outdoors with our #CascadeMountainSchool programs. Thank you!! #mtadamsinstitute #givingtuesday #thankyou
#VeteransDay is around the corner! Check out this awesome event coordinated by our very own VetsWork Americorps member Bobbie! If you’re in the Oregon Dunes area, stop by and enjoy a day of honoring past and present military veterans.
#veteran #oregondunes #oregoncoast #VetsWork #mtadamsinstitute #americorps #forestservice
Preparing our microscope slides with honey bee anatomy for the group of 8th graders joining us tomorrow. Whitney and I will be teaching our first class on the importance of bees and we'll be inspecting our front yard beehive too! 🐝 wderith #CascadeMountainSchool #Gorge #beekeeping #honeybees #honeybythepeople #dowhatyoulove
Today is #GivingTuesday ! Every donation received from now until the end of the year will be dedicated to our capital campaign Pavilion Project AND if we raise $2,500 by Dec. 31st, an amazing anonymous donor will match it, dollar for dollar! Help us connect more people to the natural world for life!
You can support us via the link in our bio!
#mtadamsinstitute #givingtuesday2019 #support #community #publiclands #stewardship #veterans
Feeling over moon about the success of today! Cascade Mountain School's summer camp had their last Farm to Table field trip at our house. We opened the hive, found the Queen bee, saw pollen be brought back at the entrance, ate honeycomb straight from a frame, and some even conquered their fear of bees! I couldn't be more thrilled about this first time adventure. Many more to come with wderith I hope! #honeybythepeople #honeybees #beekeeping #hoodriver #columbiagorge #CascadeMountainSchool #dowhatyoulove #teacheachother #youthbeekeeping
Mask making with Primitive Skills Camp! #primitiveskills #cascademountainschool #summer #mtadamsinstitute
Campers showcased their creativity today by painting a mural on our forest stage! Tune in tomorrow for a clip of the big show.
#cascademountainschool #mtadamsinstitute #summercamp #theatre #midsummer #painting #mural