We had perfect weather and trail conditions for our annual snowshoe event, held once again in Fitzroy Provincial Park, on Sunday, 17 February.

Club member Karen Krueger, frequent park visitor, led the group over the Carp River bridge and onto unofficial winter snowshoe trails to secret groves and escarpment vistas. Continue reading →

Written by Janet Mason

“I want to report a very old tree,” said Kevin Keough, announcing an unusual sighting among all the expected bird and mammal observations reported by members at the Club’s January meeting. Kevin and his wife Agnieszka had been exploring the frozen reaches of Goodwin Marsh Continue reading →

Written by Janet Mason

We journeyed back in time with geophysicist Dave Forsyth by viewing six sites along a transect (cross-section) of the Carp Ridge, from 1 billion year old Pre-Cambrian Grenville Basement granitic gneiss and syenite to 480 million year old early Ordovician bio-sediments.

First stop was on Continue reading →