Field Trips

Upcoming Field Trips 

Go Take a Hike..Together! 
Nosehill Park Erratics
Leaders: Astrid Arts & Mark Mallamo
Location: Nosehill Park, Calgary AB 
Date: Saturday June 24, 2023 | 9:00am (subject to change)
Details: Duration to be confirmed, easy hike 
This is a free event and open to CEGA members. Limited registration spots available. 

Registrants will be responsible for personal transportation. 

Registration will close on June 21st at 4pm

Go Take a Hike..Together!
Helen Lake Stromatolites
 Leaders: Astrid Arts & Mark Mallamo 
Location: Helen Lake Trailhead, AB, 
Date: Saturday August 19, 2023, | 9:00am (subject to change) 
Details: Duration to be confirmed, moderate hike 
This is a free event and open to CEGA members. Limited registration spots available. 

Registrants will be responsible for personal transportation. 

Registration will close on August 16th at 4pm 

GeoTour- Grand Canyon 
June 10-16, 2024- only 8 registrant spots remain!


Redwall Canyon- GeoTour: Grand Canyon 2022

Program Overview

CEGA is committed to offering its membership the opportunity to learn and explore through various methods of education; one of them is via Field Courses. 

We have embarked on the development and execution of various types of field courses (listed below).

  • GeoTours – imagine a field trip that is more like a geologic vacation. Locations that might be on your geologic “bucket list”? We are interested in designing geologic field trips with that kind of flavour and luxury. Our first GeoTour is an 8 day rafting trip through the Grand Canyon for May 2022, and is already sold out! We have a waiting list for the next trip in 2023.
  • GeoWalks - “Go Take a Walk” and “Go Take a Drive”…..trips in and around Calgary and Alberta leveraging off of the theme first started by “Go Take a Hike”. Some trips may be designed to be self-guided and interactive on social media.
  • GeoHikes - Traditional one-day or multi-day field courses– like we’ve done in the past, but also expanding to new themes such as Geothermal. We have a geothermal trip planned later this year in September 2021.
  • Conventions and Conferences - We support and contribute via Field Trips to geologic conventions and meetings all year long (e.g. Gussow, GeoConvention, GAC-MAC))
  • Virtual Field Trips – the first of which were presented at Gussow. This is a specific and brand new ‘niche’ of field course, that may be 1 to 2 hours in length offered at an economic cost.

Look for articles in each edition of the Reservoir written by our committee members about upcoming field courses and trips, and please give us your feedback and ideas!