Skiers and snowboarders heading to Marmot Basin this winter won’t have to worry about detours on the usual route from Jasper. Parks Canada says direct access to the ski area via Wabasso Road (93A) will be maintained throughout the 2026–27 season as crews undertake slope stabilization work on a 2.5-k...

Jasper could introduce winter bus service to Marmot Basin in November 2027 as part of a proposed five-year transit expansion plan that would more than double the Municipality's annual operating subsidy. On Tuesday, September 29, committee of the whole referred the proposed expansions to budget discu...

A 38-year-old man is deceased after taking a fatal fall into a crevasse on the Athabasca Glacier. On May 12, 2026, a group of three backcountry skiers and snowboarders were descending from the south ridge of Mount Andromeda. According to a Parks Canada spokesperson, while approaching the top of the ...

Parks Canada is posting notice that a section of the Wabasso Road (93A) is closed as of 6 p.m., April 4, 2026. The closure is due to falling debris and mud on the road, posing a hazard to drivers. As Jasper welcomes Easter long weekend guests, the road closure means that skiers, snowboarders and ski...

Marmot Basin helps launch Canadian-made safety device for ski resorts Ski families have one less thing to worry about on the slopes thanks to new GPS-tracking technology developed by a Alberta-born ski dad. Keith Macintyre wants to help parents end “lost child panic” at ski resorts. Macintyre, a sof...

Naked Olympians. Do we have your attention yet? The tradition of the Ancient Olympics, begun in 776 BCE, and maintained for a 1,000-year run, was that athletes competed in the nude. Naked pankration wrestlers on a ceramic kylix, ca. 480 BC. London, British Museum // Image via Wikimedia It goes witho...

Nature may look chaotic, but it is, in fact, very well organized. So says artist Dee McLean. “We mess with it at our peril,” she says. A scientific illustrator, painter, children’s book author, exhibit curator and former cricket coach, McLean uses art as a vehicle to engage her audience with science...

A father and son’s five-year journey to summit mighty Mount Robson From a distance, Mount Robson looks like something painted onto the horizon. Mount Robson looms large from the Yellowhead Highway. // Creative Commons Its glaciated ridges and sheer cliffs dwarf everything around it. At 3,954 metres,...

Calling all local youth with aspirations to free-ski or snowboard…The Jasper Freeride Club wants to ride with you! Jasper Freeride Club members have the chance to ski at different club competitions in Alberta. // Supplied This weekend (March 22 and 23) and again on April 12-13, Jasper Freeride is ex...

Jasper’s youth were all over the ice and the slopes last weekend (March 1-2), putting pucks in nets and picking up cowbells. Let’s start with the Jasper Junior Olympics . The annual race at Marmot Basin is one of the largest youth ski races in North America, featuring 350 athletes from 5 to 11-years...

More than 400 athletes from Alberta alpine ski teams are in town as the Jasper Junior Olympics (JJOs) return to Marmot Basin . Meanwhile, Jasper’s fastest brothers are carving up Europe.  The sounds of cowbells and cheers will echo through the Rocky Mountains as young racers—U12 and U10 skiers on Dr...

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'...

The Jasper Winter Pentathlon is a made-in-Jasper event which brings together much of what makes the community great: diverse culture, outdoor recreation, connection to nature and community spirit. Teams of up to five participants compete for fastest time, and fittest costume, at the ACFA Jasper Wint...

Ski resorts in the Bow Valley joined forces to boost the community of Jasper recently. From December 6 to 8, the SkiBig3 Community Ski Days gave Bow Valley locals the chance to tear up the slopes and also lift up their fellow resort community members.  Hosted on successive days by Banff Sunshine, Mt...

As a freestyle moguls skier, Gage LeBlanc is used to ups and downs. After all, his is a sport in which athletes navigate 160 knee-high bumps of solid snow and ice, then launch off of two huge jumps—spinning, flipping and twisting through the air to gain points. But for the last two years, for Gage, ...

“In a split second, everything can change” A Jasperite who was buried in an avalanche while snowmobiling in British Columbia is reminding other backcountry users how quickly things can go from good to bad in avalanche terrain. Alison Mason has been snowmobiling—sledding, in Valemount parlance—for fo...

A painful slog out of Jasper’s backcountry has taught a party of skiers a lesson in being prepared for safe adventuring. Jasper’s John Ward has skied many a mile over many a mountain pass—and made most of his tracks and turns without incident. “I’ve never required any assistance,” Ward said. John Wa...

Avalanche professionals broadcast caution of "highly problematic" snowpack A special public avalanche warning (SPAW) has been issued for BC and western Alberta. On February 29, Avalanche Canada said that recent, significant snow storms across Western Canada, deposited on prominent weak layers establ...

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...

Photos by Maur Muzza Mere @ muzzadventures and Patrick Barker @ patrickrbarker The fifth annual Marmot’s Revenge skinned into Jasper National Park March 31-April 2 where guests at Marmot Basin got a close up view of the sport of ski mountaineering. Three dozen or so speed suit-clad racers climbed, b...