For several years now, the mats at the Jasper Fitness Centre have been crimping…er, cramping…local bouldering buffs’ style. Bouldering, a form of rock climbing done on small rock formations—or in the case of an indoor gym, a wall of plastic holds—is performed without the use of ropes or harnesses. I...

Homegrown talent is having a big impact on high level hockey in the Yellowhead region. The Hinton Wildcats are the newest club in the Western States Hockey League (WSHL), a Tier Two Junior A league. With help from a couple of Jasper skaters and some coaching between the pipes, the team is off to a g...

3,700 KILOMETRES DOWN, 3,000 TO GO FIRST TIME RACER PAST HALF WAY POINT AS SHE NEARS THE LEGENDARY NEWTON BIKE SHOP IN KANSAS _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ From the very beginning of her planned 6,700 km bike adventure...

Greg Van Tighem is getting back on the bike for charity. Jasper’s fat biking Fire Chief has skirted the skinny shoulders of Route 93, traversed the transport truck-heavy Highway 16, eaten dust on Texas thoroughfares and chewed icicles on an arctic ice road, all in the name of fundraising for the fig...

This hockey season has been a tumultuous swim for the Crisp Pil Beavers and as this paper goes to press, lodge members (Beavers fans, duh) are excitedly imagining a scenario wherein the team makes it back into the A Final to match up against the (dreaded) Brew Pub for the third time in four years. A...

Can the JFI BoneStars beat the Brew Pub Barley Kings? Finding out the answer to that question is the main reason this sports reporter decided to saunter down to the Jasper Hockey Arena at 10:30 p.m. on a Tuesday night in the middle of winter. Well that, and to jam to the sick beats that the 16-year-...

In Jasper, we’re lucky to have several annual events which blend sport and community in a fun yet competitive fashion—think Totem’s storied Spring Run Off on Mother’s Day, the Freewheel Biathlon in October and the Astoria Hotel’s Root Romp. For the last few years, however, another event has been mak...

The Brew Pub. To visitors, the Jasper Brew Pub is a place to grab a beer, maybe smash a plate of nachos and take in the views of the Colin Range. To many Jasperites, the Brew Pub is a favourite watering hole, a juicy gossip garden and a good spot to watch a sports game. But ask local hockey players ...

The Jasper Hockey League is halfway through the 2017/18 season and most observers just have one question: Who the heck are these Hawks? JHL fans who don’ t actually play in the league (there are a couple) will have noticed a few things about this season: First of all, there seems to be a lot more pa...

On December 1, high above the town of Jasper, a small group of local skiers and snowboarders were unloading from Marmot Basin’s Paradise chairlift. It was a chilly morning, there was a trace of new snow on the ground and a quick glance at the ski tenure below indicated that the groomed runs were in ...