Part 1: Pioneer species on a fire-affected landscape Driving into the park a month after the 2024 Jasper Wildfire, we braced ourselves for a charred-earth landscape. Emotions of loss, devastation, and trepidation followed us in. So when we passed vibrant patches of green grasses springing from newly...

"It's a really incredible time to visit Jasper, to bear witness to a large natural disaster and to see what it means for the ecology of the park and to understand it is part of the natural cycle of the ecosystem here in Jasper." Although the landscape may look different in Jasper National Park this ...

A British Columbia athlete has skied from the summit of the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. On February 16, Christina Lustenberger and ski mountaineer partner Guillaume Pierrel skied an impossibly steep line through the mind-bending cliffs of the Canadian alpha mountain, Mount Robson. The duo'...

Like thousands of snow thirsty Albertans, I will always love riding at Marmot Basin.  Despite our local mountain not always being in the same condensation conversation as resorts in B.C.’s snowy interior or on the wet coast, unequivocally, some of my most fun days on snow have been at Marmot. Openin...

This is the time of year when competition is on everyone’s mind. The NHL and NBA playoffs have just ended, the 2024 Euros are underway and the Paris Olympics are just around the corner. Everywhere you look, people are straining and sweating to reach the podium or lift the cup (sadly, my Toronto Rapt...

The Jasper SkyTram will be sold to Pursuit. Viad Corp, parent company of Pursuit Banff/Jasper Collection, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Jasper SkyTram from RMSI-JTAC Equipment Holdings LP, the Edmonton-based corporation that also owns Marmot Basin. Subject to Parks ...

Canoe-accessed facilities on Maligne Lake are open again after a camper’s close encounter with a grizzly bear family precipitated two campground evacuations and subsequent closures. Last Friday, June 7, a camper at Coronet Creek campsite , a backcountry tent site on the south end of Jasper National ...

In Jasper, mountains are all around us, but on April 17, at the Jasper Legion, they will take centre stage. A four-feature summer film festival, Mountains On Stage , presented by the local francophone association ( ACFA Jasper ), will inspire and entertain, according to organizers.  “At the end of t...

“Mai, tuktumia’tuit!” That means “Wow, look at all those caribou!” (I think… my Inuktitut has not improved after 30 years of inactivity). It was a cold but sunny morning in late winter, somewhere along the treeline about 100 km west of Arviat, Nunavut. Peter, Joe and I were travelling by snowmobile ...

Knob Quad Chair opens to the public Hoots, hollers and even the occasional “cowabunga!” were reverberating on the upper mountain at Marmot Basin on Wednesday, January 24. The reason? The long-awaited, newly constructed, $7 million Knob Quad Chairlift made its official public debut, whisking skiers a...