Recent content by Lockie Brown

Some photos from Chatter Creek. The Cat Skiing Terrain Weblog has lots more.

Chatter Creek Snowcat Skiing, north of Golden BC. has announced a 42 sq mile addition to their Rocky Mountain cat skiing terrain. The Chatter News Weblog has the details and many photos of the terrain and everything else. This expansion gives them a total of 92 sq miles or about 238 sq km...

Tony Your comments are consistent with my observations over the past few years and with local scuttlebut. When we go to Chatter Creek, we usually arrive in Golden the day before our flight to give us lee-way in case of road closures. A few times, we have skied KHR in the morning, before our...

Oops! Tony, I just noticed your comment. Although Chatter Creek is only about 90 km north of Golden, it's climate seems to be quite different from that of KHR. I've been skiing at Chatter for 5 years with multiple trips in some years. On some of those occassions I have skied KHR prior to...

Sat. Feb 3. Chatter Creek reports hip-deep powder and cooling temperatures. It looks as if things are getting back to normal. Also, today is sunny! 8) 8)

Tony I think you are probably right about the pitches at Island Lake. My memory is a little hazy. I recall runs like '45' where we hiked a short ridge and had a great shot at the top. We stood, side by side, tails into the hill and looked down at the lodge between our skis, well back of the...

Tony: Yes, I guess they are filling up. I would like to try the shoulder season some time. I mentioned one December tour that was first rate. In the last couple of years, as you well know, December has been a bit thin. Have you snowcat skied much in April? I'm thinking that Chatter could...

Tony, nice to hear from you. I've enjoyed many of your thoughtful articles. I will try to answer your questions: 1. For the past two years my trips to Chatter have been at the end of Jan and into Feb. That's the tour I wrote about. I've also been back at the end of Feb and had good skiing...

One of the best snowcat skiing trips yet. Powder, powder, powder. Fresh tracks every run for 4 days. Organized a group of 24 old friends from Whistler and other spots. Great snow, great weather, great company, great lodge, too much beer. Fantastic! Snow was good on all aspects. Almost...