Athabasca River Brigade honours history, environment and cultural connections of Canada’s cross-continental waterway More than 170 adventurers have a new appreciation for the challenges—and connections—early settlers and fur traders would have experienced after a six day, 333 km trip on the Athabasc...

When Mountains of Relief set out to organize a musical event the Jasper Legion, they did so with two goals in mind. The first was to raise money for the development of a school in the community of Lisakhani, Nepal, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 2015. The second was to bring the community o...

Every year I anticipate the May long weekend fishing opener in the Mountain Parks. While there are a number of options available for fishing, my sights are always set on one place: Pyramid Lake. There are so many things that draw me there. I love that Pyramid Mountain stands sentinel directly to the...

George Mercer’s new novel puts the spotlight on Jasper National Park development // supplied “We’re kind of loving this park to death. Too many people in my opinion.” So says park warden John Haffcut in George Mercer’s newest novel, Jasper Wild, the third and latest instalment in Mercer’s Dyed in th...

Peter Amann doesn’t have a bucket list. The 62-year-old mountain guide doesn’t have a catalog of peaks he needs to climb to feel like he’s been successful in the mountains. He doesn’t concern himself with all the 11,000 foot summits, for example, and he doesn’t care much about what others regard as ...

  Valemount brewery taking pint-sized steps to success     “That’s clean,” Landon Shepherd says, analyzing his first sip of a freshly poured beer. Learning it’s been dubbed Sacrifice Red Ale, a tribute to those who serve their country, Shepherd likes what he’s tasting.“That’s really nice. My wife is...