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The ETOL program offers exciting opportunitues to experience the outdoors beginning in the first year of study.

We take advantage of many local areas, such as Police Point Park, Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Red Rock Coulee, and the Historic Reesor Ranch. We also enjoy trips to the mountains on a regular basis, in Kananaskis, Banff, Nordegg, the Icefields Parkway, and the Crowsnest Pass, to name a few.

Many of the ETOL courses you will take in the program have one or more field trips associated with them. Outdoor activity courses in the first and second years consist almost exclusively of field trips. Regular activities include canoeing, kayaking, camping in all seasons, hiking, backpacking, rock and ice climbing, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, high and low ropes courses, and wilderness navigation. Special trips have taken us white-water rafting, horseback riding, and caving as well. Several of the environmental science and geography courses have field trips as well.

In the spring semester of your first year, you will do a major, multi-day expedition. Past locations have included Willmore Wilderness, the Flathead River Valley, Akamina-Kishenina Recreation Area, and Castle Valley. This year’s expedition (Spring 2009) is going to do the West Coast Trail. Plans are under way for a major expedition for the fourth year, as well.