It’s December and I’m swinging a golf club. This isn’t a “bros trip” to Scottsdale or Vegas, and I’m a couple decades away from retiring on Vancouver Island. The Stanley Thompson-designed 18-hole course at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge Golf Club has gone into hibernation and it’ll be a good six mon...

The Jasper Arena’s temporary dressing rooms got their first tournament test of the 2023/24 hockey season last weekend. On December 16 and 17 the Jasper Junior Grizzlies U11-U13 Girls hosted their Hockey in the Rockies tournament. Teams from Fort Saskatchewan, St. Paul and Edmonton made the trip to J...

The Jasper Bears left town on Saturday morning bound for Edson, but that was just the start of a 1,250 km weekend road trip. Silly? Yes.But that’s life on the western edge of the North Eastern Alberta Hockey League . The Bears started slow in their first game in Edson, spotting the Sabres a goal jus...

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...

Jasper’s U11 Bears opened the season amid the chaos of missing dressing rooms , cancelled games due to ammonia leaks , and playing home games out of Hinton. Missing their home turf, the Bears were set to wrap up their tiering games on Heritage Classic weekend. Tiering games, played at the start of t...

A hairline fracture in the Jasper Arena’s new ice plant was determined to be the cause of an ammonia leak which shut down the Jasper Activity Centre two weekends ago. On October 14, with one minute left in the U13 Jasper Bears’ game versus Drayton Valley, Jasper emergency responders, including RCMP ...

Major renovations at the Jasper Arena are starting to take shape and the same can be said for the hockey season in Jasper. On October 3, ice users representing Jasper’s various hockey teams in the community were given an update on how the Municipality of Jasper’s $20 million upgrades to the Jasper A...

Four dudes, 1,200 kilometres, two golf courses, 6,450 yards and 506 strokes. Those were the numbers for the representatives from Jasper Jr./Sr. High School at the Alberta Schools Athletic Association’s (ASAA) 2023 Provincial Golf Tournament. Four dudes: Drew Kovacs, Casey Peel, Lincoln Radloff and A...

Jasper's Slow Pitch League crowned its champions on August 20 after a fantastic final series of games to close out the baseball season. The A-Finals championship game saw the Fit-Mitts edge out the Gangsters in a contest that came down to the last pitch. The B-Finals winners were the Bonestars and t...

The Dunning-Kruger effect is that sensation among overconfident newcomers that they have incredible natural abilities, mere moments after learning a new skill. That inflated confidence has been termed “Mount Stupid” that is quickly followed by the “Valley of Despair” once reality makes an appearance...