Outdoors

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...

From the Wife of a Snowmobiler

Randy and I have been together as a couple for 35 years. And Randy has snowmobiled every season in that 35 years. We have...

The 2021 Tumbler Ridge Christmas Bird Count

The Christmas Bird Count is the longest-standing birding tradition in North America. From it, long-term trends can be identified.  Northerly communities like Tumbler Ridge don’t...

When Crocodiles ruled the North

It was six years ago that local geologist Kevin Sharman, then working for Teck, discovered a series of imprints left behind by what turns...

Six hundred trees and counting

Charles Helm The trails don’t maintain themselves… that is one self-evident take-home message in 2021. It has been a brutal fall, winter and spring, as...

Tumbler Ridge Global Museopark?

Back in July of last year, the Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark received a grant from Heritage BC to hire a consultant and facilitator to...

Latest articles