Spring at Sage: Canadian Rockies

Travel through Calgary toward Jasper, pause at Banff Upper Hot Springs and document first impressions through photography, sketching or journaling.

Rotate through wilderness challenges in Jasper National Park, practicing skills such as shelter-building and navigation. Ride the Jasper SkyTram, then explore the night sky with telescopes in one of the world’s largest accessible dark-sky preserves.

Travel the Icefields Parkway past waterfalls and alpine ecosystems. At Athabasca Glacier, use climate data and close observation to examine glacial retreat, then walk beside Lake Louise and consider our responsibility to disappearing landscapes.

Work with the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society on wildlife corridors, habitat connectivity, and climate action. Take on field roles such as wildlife tracker, plant identifier, and ecosystem photographer during an interpretive ecology walk.

Explore native relationships with land and cultural resilience at the Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum. With the Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley, trace the systems behind water and energy, then visit a social enterprise supporting local food entrepreneurs.

Return through Calgary, carrying home practical ideas about stewardship, leadership and environmental responsibility.