Our Guides

Stefan started skiing at the age of four and has been in love with the best winter sport ever since. His professional ski career began in 1984 when he began teaching skiing in Quebec. Soon enough the mountains were not big enough, and he relocated to BC to find great snow and big mountains and moved from teaching skiing to ski patrolling and eventually ski guiding for the last nineteen years. He is fluent in English, French, and German and also speaks a little Spanish. Stefan is looking forward to skiing the best powder available with you in a relaxed yet safe atmosphere.

Born and raised on BC powder, Brodie has spent the better part of his winters exploring the mountains on skis. Brodie is looking to share his passion for the sport with others. In the summers you can find him hanging off a rope on one of the many peaks of the Canadian Rockies or working as a wood crafter from his home in the Blaeberry.

Yuji came over to Canada from downtown Tokyo Japan in 2002.  He planned to stay in Canada for only one year to check out the mountains but he’s still here.  Seems he was trapped in Canadian deep pow and can’t get out!  Yuji started working at Chatter Creek in 2012.  When you don’t see him at Chatter, he’s likely guiding ski touring in the Rockies or Japan.  Yuji spends the summer months guiding Japanese hikers and backpackers in the Rockies.  He lives year round in Canmore with his wife and two daughters.

Jordan learned to ski in the small hills of Ontario but moved west for bigger mountains and deeper powder a decade ago. Prior to guiding Jordan spent his winters as a ski patroller and avalanche technician at Panorama Mountain. When the winter ends, he spends most of his time planting trees or rock climbing around his current home of Invermere, BC.

Bryan Anderson’s first trip into Chatter Creek to guide was in 2011. He grew up water skiing and surfing on Vancouver Island and moved to the Rocky Mountains to ski patrol in 1992 where he met his future wife who was also a patroller. His first winter guiding cat skiing was in 1998 and has been heli, cat and touring folks in the mountains every winter since then. Bryan lives in Golden with his wife and two kids. Days off in the winter are spent chasing his two young kids through the trees at Kicking Horse Resort. He spent his summers as a whitewater rafting guide until retiring (except for the odd cameo) 10 years ago to work full time in his other trade as a Journeyman Carpenter. Spare time in the summer is spent loading up the dirt bikes, hooking up the trailer, ski boat, toys and heading to a lake with his family. He looks forward to his warm water surf and sand castle building vacation before his winter starts every year.

Martin learned how to ski in a little town in Slovakia, called Mlynky.  It didn’t take long for him to fall in love with skiing untracked terrain and exploring outside the resort boundaries. However, it was only after he moved to British Columbia, when he realized skiing was his true passion. Martin has started in the ski industry as a ski patroller and an avalanche technician in Panorama Mountain Resort. Currently residing in Golden, BC, you can find him skiing powder in the backcountry or shredding at his local ski hill. Once the snow melts, Martin moves north and spends his summers wildland firefighting and mountain biking out of Burns Lake.

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.

After a couple seasons of warming the bench as a part-timer, Nic is stoked to get bumped onto the starting line-up and all the glorious powder skiing that entails. A lifetime athlete, Nic had the opportunity to race road bikes professionally for nearly a decade prior to “seeing the light” and trading carbon wheels for sending sticks. He resides in Canmore and spends his summers travelling through the mountains climbing and biking. He is looking forward to sharing some amazing turns with you on your next trip up to the lodge. Let it snow!

Born in New Zealand, Kat made the journey north in 2006.  For the past 18 years she’s worked as a ski patroller and avalanche technician with 13 seasons being at Lake Louise.  Living in Banff she spends summers working for Parks Canada on trail crew and riding her mountain bike.  With her personal motto being “No bad days” she’s generally an upbeat personality.

Originally from Ottawa, Ryan moved west following high school to come work and play in the mountains. He loves spending time in the hills in all different ways, from skiing, running, biking, climbing, paddling, it’s all good. Stoked to be at Chatter Creek this year on a more full time schedule and looking forward to lots of good skiing with good people.