On Saturday I was privileged to be able to join one of the hikes put on by the
Burgess Shale Foundation up to the Mount Stephen trilobite beds. This important deposit of fossil
trilobites is
included on the
list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and is part of the Burgess Shale formation, which is perhaps more famous for the Walcott Quarry creatures, a collection of very strange looking prehistoric organisms on display at about 20 times life size in a memorable exhibit at the
Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta. I got a few good pictures, which you can check out on my Flickr profile
here.