SCOL Retreat Center

Wrapping up the 2025 Leadership Retreat
October 22, 2025
About twenty of us gathered October 17 at SCOL for KCC’s annual leadership retreat. We focused on our ongoing effort to implement the goals in the KCC Strategic Plan 2024-2029 that was adopted with extensive community input.

SCOL Wildfire Work Party Recap
August 6, 2025
On July 18th, the very day KCC’s White Tara Retreat began, the Burdoin Fire broke out on the west side of Klickitat County. On the first weekend of August, there was an SCOL workparty to help reduce wildfire risk around the retreat center.

Thank you to the mighty SCOL Forest Crew!
June 10, 2025
Our most recent SCOL work party was on June 7. If we were Scouts, the members of this crew would have earned their Wood Stacking Badges. Rick McMonagle led the […]

Much Gratitude for Service at SCOL
March 27, 2025
Members of our Sangha are graciously stepping up to help at SCOL. To create the conditions for spiritual retreats at our wonderful rural facility much effort is required, including cleaning, […]

Gray Squirrels are endangered? – An SCOL Nature Spotlight by Vicki Fields
September 9, 2024
Yes, the State of Washington designated the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus) as endangered in 2023. This is because there are only three areas in the state where the species […]

A House Wren’s Love’s Labor Lost, a Nature Tale from SCOL, by Vicki Fields
August 12, 2024
One sunny late Spring morning a bachelor house wren busied himself on the edge of Carrols Creek meadow searching for a perfect nest site. He darted from tree hollows to […]

Sati Sangha’s Review of their SCOL Retreat
July 15, 2024
“What we found was a beautiful, secluded and well established home for practice. The beautiful land and the clearly marked trails beckoned us on walks that really added to the retreat experience.”

Wonderful Service and Losar at SCOL
February 11, 2024
On the weekend of Feb. 9 & 10, twelve enthusiastic volunteers came to SCOL for a traditional cleaning of the facility for Losar, Tibetan New Year. We gathered Friday morning […]

Repairing the SCOL Land
February 1, 2024
An interview with Dora DeCoursey By Vicki Fields, SCOL When KCC purchased the property for Ser Chö Ösel Ling (SCOL) in 2001, efforts to repair damage to the soil and […]

SCOL Meadow Restoration Project
January 26, 2024
Read about the history of land tending and restoration at SCOL In 2019, KCC began working with scientists from the Yakama Nation Fisheries Program to restore Carrol’s Creek and the […]
