A team of cyclists riding from Alberta’s southern border to where the province meets the Northwest Territories passed through Jasper on Tuesday, August 26. Five riders are endeavouring to complete an 1,800 km ride in just one week, a never-done-before two-wheeled push in the name of Alberta’s search...

Rugged roads and twisting trails await those who seek. Thanks to its history of trail use by outfitters and recreationalists, Jasper has established itself as a must-stop destination on the mountain biking map. These days, standing on the shoulders of the 1990s-era riders, a new generation of athlet...

Vicious Cycle's pop-up location opened on May 1; eight more businesses are expected to move in over the next two months until an official launch on the Canada Day long weekend. Vicious Cycle is the first business to open its temporary location at the new pop-up village for businesses displaced by th...

Cory Wallace doesn’t play competitive hockey these days, but the former Jasper Wolves winger recently scored a double hat trick on his mountain bike. In September, the 37-year-old Jasperite chalked up his sixth consecutive WEMBO 24-hour Solo World Mountain Bike Championship , outlasting two extremel...

Skateboarders are now in the final countdown ...it's mere weeks until they can begin carving-up the town’s new million-dollar skatepark in Commemoration Park.  “Look at the backdrop! Look at the scenery around it—the features, the open bowl concept,” Jesse Hale from New Line Skateparks told the Jasp...

The Municipality of Jasper has scratched a local bylaw which banned skateboards, rollerblades and scooters from downtown roads. The discussion came after a Jasper resident complained that electric scooters should be allowed downtown. E-scooters on public roadways are still prohibited under Alberta’s...

Jasper’s Dr. Declan Unsworth finished first in the 126km “Leg Burner” race at the 10th annual Jasper Gran Fondo June 8. The good doctor also burned the rest of the field on the Marmot Basin Road hill climb, registering the fastest time of more than 220 racers whose route included the 13 km, 700 metr...

Jade Dulle knows something about an uphill battle. The 28-year-old Saskatoon woman recently passed through Jasper on her road bike. Her starting point was Prince Rupert, B.C., 1,000 kilometres away. Her endpoint: Newfoundland. Getting through the Rocky Mountains was tough, but Dulle wasn’t prepared ...

Cory Wallace is a world 24 hour solo mountain bike champion again. The Jasper athlete defended his title at the World Endurance Mountain Bike Organization (WEMBO) World Championships on November 4-5, held this year in Armidale, Australia. It’s Wallace’s fifth time standing atop the elite men’s podiu...

Ahead of the September Long weekend, in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, a group of dedicated volunteers are clearing trails, building bridges and erecting signage. The big push is in advance of another big push—a unique event with an important mission. The Hinton MS Bike Ride is a two-day, 90...

For all the routes he’s ridden, for all the countries he’s cycled and for all the trails he’s traversed, for Cory Wallace, when it comes to mountain bike training, there’s still no place like home. But before residents of Jasper, AB and citizens of McBride, B.C., puff up too big with pride, Wallace—...

On a day when hundreds of cyclists with the Jasper Gran Fondo were racing all over Jasper National Park’s blacktop, one lone rider was racking up kilometres with a different mountain in mind. Dean Anderson had no racer’s pinny. He wasn’t part of any peloton. And there was no participation medal for ...

Andrew Bovard is back on top of the 24 hour solo mountain biking podium. The 45-year-old Jasperite took home first place in the Masters category at the recent Canadian Rockies 24 , held at Canmore’s nordic centre. “That course is the hardest 2-4 course,” Bovard said. “It’s rooty, rutty and rocky.” B...

Photos by Jamie Robson The Jasper Park Cycling Association is shifting gears into fundraising mode. With a new operating permit in hand from Parks Canada and a fresh lease agreement with the Municipality of Jasper, members of the non-profit group once again have their collective eye on their flagshi...

In the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, near the famous crater where the celebrated Ngorongoro Conservation Area teems with wildlife and tourists, Jasper Alberta’s Cory Wallace is “motor pacing” behind a tuktuk along a busy paved road near Arusha, Tanzania. As Wallace’s tire hovers less than a metre fro...

A Rocky Mountain rider is the top dog of the desert. Jasper’s Andrew Bovard is back from a marathon mountain bike race in Utah, where after riding his bike for more than a full rotation of the earth, he was crowned the 2021 male solo champion of the 25 Hours in Frog Hollow Race . “I still can’t feel...

This story originally appeared in the March 1, 2020 edition of The Jasper Local. Some artists paint pictures, some artists write songs and some artists design buildings. And then there is Jasper’s JF Fortin. Fortin sculpts trails out of snow. JF Fortin making a rare daytime appearance on the Jasper ...

A foot of snow, a broken bike and 9,000 metres of elevation gain couldn’t stop Dean Anderson from completing the first recorded “Everest” challenge on a fat bike. Jasper Local readers might remember Anderson from a similarly audacious assault on Signal Mountain in August, 2019, wherein the St. Alber...

Straight off the successful defending of his World 24 Hours Solo Championship in Scotland and three-peating a first place finish in Nepal , Jasper-born mountain biker Cory Wallace is pitting himself against another 24 hour challenge. On October 21, Wallace capped off an all-day-all-night sufferfest ...

It was 1993. May. The almost two-month long siege at Waco Texas had just ended in terrible massacre; the siege of Sarajevo by the Bosnian Serbs was into its second year. The following month would see TVs final episode of Cheers and rave reviews for blockbuster movie Jurassic Park. There was no fanfa...