Help celebrate Alberta Wilderness Association’s 60th Anniversary by committing to a nature-based challenge centred around the number 60!
All participants will have their own webpage to share with friends where they can sponsor your adventure. Everyone who completes their 60 challenge will receive a special piece to commemorate your achievement and AWA’s 60th anniversary. There will also be a chance to win prizes for various fundraising goals. As you go on your adventure journey don’t forget to post on your favourite socials and tag us @albertawildernessassociation and @adventures4wild and include the hashtag #WhatsYour60.
Thank you to our event sponsor Bowness Soapworks+Seto Pottery!
Want to join the fun but need some inspiration?
Here are just a few ideas, but What’s Your 60 can be anything that challenges you personally and connects you to nature. It’s only limited by YOUR imagination! We want to know, “What’s Your 60?” Click here to register.
For the kids
- Raise and donate $60 to AWA
- Interview and write about 6 friends/family members about why nature is important to them
- Pick up 60 pieces of litter at a local park
- Sleep in a tent 60 nights in 2025 (it could even count in your backyard!)
For the creative
- Create 60 nature-based paintings or sketches
- Create a post about nature 60 times on social media #whatsyour60, and tag AWA
- Identify and take photos/sketch of 60 different types of birds or plants
For the athletic (or those striving to be!)
- Walk or run 60 km every month this year
- Canoe 60 km in one day
- Cross Country Ski 60 km in a day
- Cycle 600 km of your city’s pathways in 2025
- Ski or bike on 60 different trails in 2025
- 60 hikes/trail runs in 2025
- Trail run 60 kilometres
- Hike the Great Divide Trail in 60 days
For everyone
- Be active in nature 60 days in 2025 (use our mindful movement calendar to help you track it!)
- Donate 60 hours of volunteer time to an environmental non-profit in 2025
- Write 60 letters to a politician about environmental issues
- Visit 60 parks near you (did you know Calgary has 75?!) in 2025
- Pick up 60 kg of litter in 2025
- Spend 60 hours in 2025 meditating in nature
Our “What’s Your 60?” Participants
Amanda Konnik – “Solo hiking 60 km and visiting and logging 60 different bodies of water.”
Amy Tucker – “Take 60 photos of nature in 2025 and go for 60 outdoor swims.”
Barbara Davis
Chris Saunders – “Walk, cycle, or ski 60 kilometres on trails in Kananaskis”
Debborah Donnelly – “Posting 60 new observations on iNaturalist in 2025, walking 60 km/month, and writing 60 nature-based haikus”
Jamie Jack – “Hike for 60 Minutes in Alberta every month in 2025, Cross-Country Ski 60 Kilometers in 30 Days, Bike 60 Trails in Alberta”
Kelsie Joad – “Visit 60 Calgary Parks and hike 60 trails”
Kennedy Halvorson – “Collect and catalogue 60 bugs”
Kristina Moore & Family – “60 days of family movement in nature in 2025”
Luo, Ruiping – “Spend 60 hours drawing birds and other nature-related topics. Take 60 walks or hikes outdoors”
Melba Seto & Family (Bowness Soapworks)- “60 days of foraging, fishing and climbing, 60 km of running, 60 days of ski, skate and surf”
Pamela Narvaez-Torres – “60 walks throughout the year and submit 60 observations to iNaturalist”
Patricia Striker (Back to Wild Calgary) –
Phillip Meintzer – “Commuting by bicycle 60 times in 2025″
Ruth McKeeman – “Write 60 letters to government”
Sara Heerema – “Plant 60 native perennial plants to replace lawn, barren ground, or invasive species”
Shannon Mageau Webb – “Hiking or running 60 trails in Alberta”
Shawna Rogers – “Complete 60 Adventure Labs”
Sisterhood of the Traveling Flask – “60 hikes and 60 wildflowers”
Sonja Hayes-Powers
Stacie Wilkinson – “Find 60 new places to explore, visit 60 local parks, capture 60 pictures of nature whether it be animals, flowers, mountains.”