Josh Milligan: Guide Manager and Lead Guide

Josh is an ACMG Ski Guide and he's been working at Chatter Creek since 2004. Over the past 12 years he's guided cat skiing, heli skiing and ski touring throughout western Canada and in Europe. Josh lives in Nelson BC where he spends time riding and fixing his dirt bike.

Paddy Jerome: Lead Guide

Paddy is an ACMG Mountain Guide with 11 years of guiding experience in Canada, the US and Europe. Paddy also works as a rescue technician on remote job sites from Pennsylvania to Dubai. "Taking people skiing and climbing is the best job in the world considering it's something I love doing and I can make a living at it."

Guides

Ian Kirschner

Ian is an ACMG Ski Guide and began working at Chatter Creek in 2006. When not guiding at Chatter Creek Ian spends his time thinking about skiing and working as a Carpenter in Golden, BC. In the off season you'll find him in a kayak on the Kicking Horse River.

Don Steedman

Don has been guiding in the Canadian Rockies since the beginning of time and now spends his winters at Chatter Creek. Don is a certified member of the Canadian Ski Guide Association (CSGA) and the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG) as an Assistant Ski Guide. Speciallizing in glacier travel, mountaineering skills, backcountry ski touring, crevasse rescue and teaching avalance courses, Don finds himself at one with the mountains. His passion for skiing is second to none.

Geoff Osler

Geoff is a certified ACMG Ski Guide living in Banff, Alberta. Geoff has guided cat skiing, heli skiing and ski touring throughout British Columbia and Alberta. Geoff has been to Europe, the Yukon, Greenland, the United States and all over western Canada exploring various different mountain ranges on skis. This will be Geoff's sixth season at Chatter Creek.

Ken Black

Ken is an ACMG Ski Guide and has worked at Chatter Creek since 2001. Ken lives in Golden where he spends time being super cool and enjoys hanging out with his son Tanner. When not working at Chatter Creek, Ken makes sure the trains are on time between Lake Louise and Revelstoke. In the summer you'll find Ken doing a number of super cool things like mountain biking, trail running and surfing.

Steve Konik

Steve is a certified ACMG Assistant Ski Guide and has been working in the ski industry for more than fifteen years. He began his guiding work as a ski patroller and has spent many years guiding in the backcountry, cat skiing and heli skiing. Steve started working for Chatter Creek in 2009. In the summer months Steve can be found paddling around the Queen Charlotte Islands leading expedition kayak trips. When Steve is not guiding in the mountains or on the ocean, he can be found at home in Canmore, Alberta with his family.

Tail Guides

Peter Willott

Doctor Willott is Chatter Creek's good times ambassador. Depending on the week you'll find him driving a snowcat or tail guiding but ultimately he's satisfying his addiction to deep snow. In the summer Pete works for Parks Canada fixing up the hiking trails in Banff and Yoho National Parks. When not working Pete likes to play outside and dance as often as possible. "Hopefully we will do both your next trip. See you out there!"

Sarah Wells

After completing university, Sarah hopped in a small car with her favourite ski buddy and made a pilgrimage across Canada to spend a winter in the Rockies "livin' the dream." Many winters later she calls Lake Louise home and is still fuelling her passion for skiing. Sarah has been tail guiding at Chatter Creek since 2007. Before Chatter Creek she worked at the Lake Louise Ski Area on the ski patrol. When not playing in the mountains she can be found in the sky working for an airline and indulging her other passion, traveling.

Bryce Campbell

Bryce has worked at Chatter Creek since 2008 as a cat driver and this season he will join the tail guiding team. Before coming to Chatter Bryce worked for Parks Canada cleaning up the hiking trails with Pete and guiding snowmobile tours. He currently spends his summers flying helicopters around the Columbia Icefields.

Rachel Brown

Downtown Rachel Brown, all the way from Labrador via St John's Newfoundland. Before Chatter Creek Rachel spent 17 years in Lake Louise where she worked as an avalanche forecaster and ski patroller. Deep and soft snow lured her to the west side of the Rockies in 2006 and she hasn't looked back. Rachel now lives in Nelson BC where she spends her summers working on the garden and enjoying the West Kootenays.

Matthew Garner

Matt is going into his fifth winter working at Chatter. Depending on the week, you may find him enforcing the rules of the tyrant guides, or receiving the emotional abuse of the chef and kitchen staff. Matt is a Gemini and encompasses the traits of said astrological sign, including a double personality. One is a skier, while the other is a knuckle dragging snowboarder. During the summer Matt spends much of his time praying for forest fires to engulf the province, learning just enough Spanish to get by down south and making skin donations to local area skateboard parks.