Trek for Treasure
Saturday, 11:00 a.m.
Free Admission
Speaker: Mark Pearson
The award-winning Trek for Treasure program brings together people who enjoy the outdoors, care about their fitness, and embrace healthy competition.
Join in this summer for six hikes throughout Skagit County and the surrounding area. Your team of two or more people has two weeks to complete each hike at your own pace and convenience. Hidden at the end of each hike is a container with a code inside that unlocks a riddle. Complete all six hikes, solve the riddles, and collect the clues. Use these clues in the Final Challenge to find the hidden treasure!
Concrete Crushers
Saturday, Noon
Free Admission
Speaker: Linda Kilpatrick
Find out how you can support and be part of the Concrete Crushers Running Club! This youth group is looking for volunteers, funding, and community participation.
Forest Therapy
Saturday, 1:00 p.m.
Free Admission
Speaker: Michael Stein-Ross
For decades, scientists have been researching the physiological and psychological benefits of time spent in nature. A robust body of research seems to agree that humans function best with regular, purposeful experiences in nature.
At this presentation from Cascadia Forest Therapy, you will learn about “forest bathing,” a form of meditation that encourages participants to reconnect with nature in order to heal the earth and to heal themselves.
MINERS RIDGE LOOKOUT:
A Volunteer’s story of its Restoration
Saturday, 3:00 p.m.
Free Admission
Speaker: Russ Dalton
Find out what it’s like to be a fire lookout whose job it is to scan the horizon for smoke and alert the authorities before a fire becomes deadly. Human lookouts are becoming a remnant of the past. The Forest Service manages 153 lookout posts these days in Washington and Oregon, but only about 50 of them are staffed full- or part-time.
Russ Dalton will describe his work at the Miners Ridge Fire Lookout in the North Cascades.