Cross Country Ski Wax Clinic Tuesday Dec 8th – Room 1 – 7pm
Come with your cross country skis and learn what tools you need and how to apply glide and grip wax! Please bring your own wax and/or iron if you have it.
Come with your cross country skis and learn what tools you need and how to apply glide and grip wax! Please bring your own wax and/or iron if you have it.
The Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark Society (TRGGS) is excited to share the news issued by UNESCO today announcing that all 120 existing Global Geoparks, including the TRGG, will now officially become UNESCO sites. The announcement comes after the 195 Member States of UNESCO voted positively to create the UNESCO Global Geopark label on November 17,…
Another fantastic article from the globe and mail features the Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark’s Paleontological strengths: Click to read the Globe and Mail’s Article
Why you should visit one of Canada’s UNESCO heritage sites: Click to read the Globe and Mail’s Article
The Tumbler Ridge Geopark Society (TRGGS) is very pleased to announce the appointment of our newly hired TRGG Manager Sarah Waters. Sarah brings 17 years of experience working as a consulting archaeologist and traditional use specialist. Also a very avid volunteer involved in many volunteer groups (WNMS, TRMF, TRGG) in Tumbler Ridge including her position as manager for…
Starts 11am @ Tumbler Ridge Golf Course on the Lost Haven Cabin trails (part of the TR Trail). Entry Fee – $5 per individual or $10 per family – pay on race day Distances – Elementary School – 1.3 km; Junior High – 3 km; High School Girls – 4.7 km; All Others 6 km …
Presented by WNMS this friday at 7pm. Tumbler Ridge Secondary school – tickets available at the door $10 for adults, $5 for kids (Under 6 free). Please remember to bring indoor shoes. More info on their website here.
Sarah Gamble and Kaitlin Minichiello, archaeologists with Amec Foster Wheeler in Tumbler Ridge, have been conducting the archaeological impact assessment for Boralex’s proposed Redwillow Wind Energy project 50 kilometres southeast of Tumbler Ridge. They look for evidence of past human use of the area, such as prehistoric First Nations sites or historic trapper cabins, not…
They really love our “Happy Jumpers” at UNESCO. Here Birgit and Sandy are pictured high above the TRGG. Also in the news our Videographer released a showcase of Tumbler Ridge Fall colours today!
When our delegates from Tumbler Ridge attend UNESCO Global Geoparks Network conferences, they are struck by how many Global Geoparks have Pleistocene (Ice Age) geology as their main theme. By contrast, here in Tumbler Ridge we have sometimes viewed the Pleistocene glacial till that covers much of the surface as an irritant, something to be…