Jaspertown is nestled in the middle of the national park, where icy glaciers tumble down towering rocky peaks and melt to form wild, white water-choked rivers that cut through pine-filled valleys.
Though a step up from the groomed cross-country ski trails that lie closer to the town of Jasper (population 4, 000), 23km to the northeast, the technical challenges of the Tonquin Valley are not extreme.