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Autumn Wrap-Up, Winter Break Camp & Summer Updates -

Autumn Wrap-Up, Winter Break Camp & Summer Updates

November Newsletter - Veteran's Day Breakhttps://mailchi.mp/c2b666a1476c/november-newsletter-veterans-day-break-more

Plate tectonics, so cute

A geological meet cute

Opening Summer Registration - https://mailchi.mp/f0b0bbc120fd/pinnacle-break-camps-5853044

Happy New Year! Pinnacle’s Summer Camp themes, dates, and locations are posted. Check out your favorite camps before Registration opens up on Feb. 1st @ 9am

https://PinnacleExplorations.org.squarespace.com/summer-schedule

Thanksgiving Break, School-Year Camps, & Summer '24 Updates -

Thanksgiving Break, School-Year Camps, & Summer '24 Updates

Jumping into the weekend like...🙃

Spiderlings gonna hatch where they hatch!🕷 We recently placed our stuffies out to dry in the sun after using them like reusable water balloons and to our surprise, we found spiderlings scattered about one of them. 😳Look closely and you'll see them in these photographs. 🧐

After emerging from their egg sac, spiderlings will spin a dragline and balloon away in the breeze. 💨One might find baby spiders on branches, fencepost, or tall objects where they can be high up off the ground to tilt their spinnerets up into the air, allowing the breeze to pull their silk out of their spinnerets.

Keep an eye out for spiderlings when you're playing outside and you too might get to witness baby spiders hard at work.

In a world of earbuds streaming constant playlists and podcasts, consider switching those off to improve your mental health. How? Watch the birds or simply listening to bird calls and songs. 🐦 🎼🦉🎼🦅

"...Researchers found a significant positive association between seeing or hearing birds and improved mental well-being, even when accounting for other possible explanations such as education, occupation, or the presence of greenery and water, which have themselves been associated with positive mental health.

The benefits persisted well beyond the bird encounter. If a participant reported seeing or hearing birds at one point, their mental well-being was higher, on average, hours later even if they did not encounter birds at the next check-in." -Richard Sima for The Washington Post.

Read more here: https://rb.gy/kj7j0.

Photo: Our Explorers use binoculars to admire a Anna's Hummingbird in the distance (top of the middle tree) during our birding excursion through the Arboretum.

Give us all the water games in these sunny days. 💦☀️What are you all doing to keep cool? 😎

📣Public Service Announcement about our PNW waters!📣

The heatwave that is in effect throughout the PNW region entices people to cool off in our rivers, lakes, and Puget Sound. However, Tony Gomez, who manages violence and injury prevention for Public Health — Seattle & King County, warns us in his interview with KUOW, “The lakes are in the 50 degree range right now, rivers are upper 30s, maybe low 40s. They're going to be fast, cold, very dangerous."
Therefore, we should all be mindful when dipping out toes into the frigid waters, regardless of our swimming experience. He told Casey Martin at KUOW, “The danger with the cold water is that a good swimmer who's good in the swimming pool can quickly become incapacitated. Muscles just don't work at that same cold temperature.” Martin continues, "When people plunge into icy water they often take a big gasp, often gulping in a mouthful of water, he warns. Anything longer than a quick splash can increase a person’s chances of becoming sluggish in the water and potentially drowning."

Act smart! Be safe!

Read more here: https://bit.ly/3Ocltpj

Photo credit: Our Associate Executive Director, Erika Brown, took this picture this early May while riding on the ferry back from Bainbridge Island.

You never know what you'll see on a walk in Seattle. 😃

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