Outdoors

Despite Issues around operational funding, museum moving forward

While the last couple of years have been hard on tourism across the north, that hasn’t been the case for the museum says Museum...

Local snowmobile club gets better sense of Caribou Closure impacts

Caribou closures will affect Tumbler Ridge sledding, but not in the way you might expect says Ridge Rider Snowmobile Club President Justin Kruse.  “In all...

When Crocodiles ruled the north?

Since the initial discovery of Dinosaur Trackways in the Tumbler Ridge area about two decades ago, there are few locations where Charles Helm likes...

It’s a good news/bad news sort of thing for Geopark and Museum

In 2021, it was discovered that the Economic Development Funding through which the PRRD was funding the Geopark and the Museum was not actually...

Health in Geopark Project releases educational information

Two years after it was first proposed by Dr. Charles Helm, the Health in the Geopark project has had its first fruits in the form of...

Hole-in-the-Wall Provincial Park—now with Hole-in-the-Wall!

When BC Parks established Hole-in-the-Wall Provincial Park, they set aside 137 ha of land to protect this important geological feature. Unfortunately, they forgot to include...

Let it snow, part … what? Five? Six?

A warm (and wet) front is moving across the province, threatening to dump up to a foot of snow on tumbler (and much of...

Geopark looks to District for operational funding

A change at the Peace River Regional District has left the Tumbler Ridge Geopark looking for operational funding for 2022.  According to mayor Keith Bertrand—who...

Winter Safety in the Backcountry

Be careful out there.  After a year of low to moderate avalanche danger, recent weather patterns are conspiring to increase the level of avalanche danger...

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