{"id":2759,"date":"2011-01-23T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T17:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.shafted.com.au\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2011-02-17T18:30:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T01:30:21","slug":"to-chester-lake-with-chariot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=2759","title":{"rendered":"To Chester Lake with Chariot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The thing about finding ski tours to do without any avy danger – they all seem to involve skiing to lakes. Ok, not all, Goat Creek and Cascade Fire Trail are at least two exceptions I can think of. Nonetheless, on Sunday we skied to another lake. <\/p>\n

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Up and away<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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It was snowing the whole time – the cover of the Chariot got a good coating<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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A quick lunch by the lake<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Happy to be out in the snow<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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And skiing back down again<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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The handlebars on the Chariot definitely come in handy for descents when some manoeuvring is required. Also on ascents on a narrow trail, as it likes to try and dive into tree wells – it really doesn’t track very well.<\/p>\n

The Chester Lake trail is about 10km return, now with a one-way section in force for part of the ski trail (all signed and obvious). Nice and wide for the first half, turning into a thin and windy trail through tighter trees towards the end, but still plenty of room to get a Chariot through (although with the tree wells and sections that are a little off-camber, doing it alone could get interesting). Our heavy skis were overkill, seeing as we weren’t actually heading out for any turns – cross-country gear would be much more sensible (although the downhill is definitely much steeper than the Moraine Lake trail).<\/p>\n

It’s pretty popular for snow-shoeing as well, though there’s a separate snow-shoe trail to the lake (no idea what that’s like for towing a Chariot on). On weekends in general the trail can be pretty busy, with half of Calgary turning up there – if you can get out and back early you’ll miss a lot of the other traffic though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The thing about finding ski tours to do without any avy danger – they all seem to involve skiing to lakes. Ok, not all, Goat Creek and Cascade Fire Trail are at least two exceptions I can think of. Nonetheless, on Sunday we skied to another lake.   Up and away     It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1,1270,14,17],"tags":[1272,1273],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-general","category-moosling","category-snow","category-trip-reports","tag-chariot","tag-chester-lake"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["canada<\/a>","general<\/a>","moosling<\/a>","snow<\/a>","trip reports<\/a>"],"unlinked":["canada<\/span>","general<\/span>","moosling<\/span>","snow<\/span>","trip reports<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["chariot<\/a>","chester lake<\/a>"],"unlinked":["chariot<\/span>","chester lake<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 15 years ago","modified":"Updated 15 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 23.1.2011","modified":"Updated on 17.2.2011"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 23.1.2011 10:12 am","modified":"Updated on 17.2.2011 6:30 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}