Hike 4: Geology Hike with Dr Rob Rainbird

It was a perfect fall day for our last hike in the Chelsea 150 series. Geologist Dr Rob Rainbird led about 50 people through the remarkable and diverse geological story of the Musie Ponds area.

Visiting various rock formations, we travelled back over a billion years to the creation and breakup of supercontinents, the formation of Himalayan-sized mountains, and more recently evidence of the Wisconsin glaciation, of erratics and striations. Who knew this story is written right in our backyard?!

Thank you to Dr Rainbird for his very compelling interpretation, to the municipality for their support, and to SCT’s president, Heather MacDonald, for her organization & timely leaf-blowing, making the hike available to many people.

For more info: GEOLOGY OF THE GATINEAU STRIP: CHELSEA, QUEBEC