Anyone been into Hope?

[snow11cruz]

Heading out to Golden / Revy this weekend - anyone been out to Hope yet? are they logging there this year and if so how far in get you drive?..:d

 

[RaspberryNytro]

Not sure about exact details yet, but road has been closed at rock cut(approx 50km) due to rock slab falling. No getting around it

RN

 

[snow11cruz]

wow... that doesn't sound good for that access to that area - any chance of that being cleared?...that must hurt the heli ski area

 

[knizer8hun]

To the no getting around it... From my understanding, as well as that of a Golden local at the Calgary sno-show;

It sounds like you CAN squeeze a sled through the rock cut.

Makes sense if you're riding Hope, but for Chatter, then you've got a 20 km longer ride.

 

[knizer8hun]

Also, does anyone know if they're even maintaining the road right out of Donald?

Are they still plowingit the whole way to the Chatter parking lot?
Or does it stop at Susan/Jeb lake turn off or what?

 

[rapptorracing]

I headed for Hope yesterday and got turned around by a forestry officer, he said road is closed to public at the rock cut and they don't expect to reopen it for a year or two.

 

[Carbon]

I was talking with randy from motor tech,gave me the wink and said yeah and the willows are to long also.Ill be going!

 

[moto.racerx]

Hope is closed for the year, no bull****.. we went there Sunday and we escorted out by a BC forestry officer... you'll be ticketed if you are caught in there. Apparently the road is closed due to unstable rock above. But just so you know it is only closed to us douchebag sledders!!! The Chatter creek skiers are allowed past the closure point. Seriously, that what he told us!! If it is dangerous, and that is why they shut it down, then nobody should be allowed... We had to leave and ride a half day elsewhere. We were not a happy bunch of sledders Sunday... Hope is my favourate Golden area, if it's closed, I not riding here anymore.. On to Revy... Some of our other fellow snowesters were escorted out too..

I'm thinking of writing BC forestry..

I called BC Forestry today..... talked to the operations manager for the area - He Indicated that the road is going to be closed until next summer until they can properly asses it. I guess the first slide came down, and the geo-physical engineers assesed it and built a plan to clean up. As this was in the planning stages, a second slide came down. Too much snow and debris to properly asses it. Besides that they still have to decide who is going to foot the $500,000 clean up bill. So it is going to stay closed until at least next summer.

He also indicated that Chatter creek is able to get in and out at planned times with an escort through the slide area. I asked him about access for Sledders and he told me that Chatter is a large scale operation that needs access to the area, and they cannot accomodate a small number of recreational back country snowmobilers, so were not allowed in or around the slide!!!!


Anyway, thats the official story right from the Forestry operations manager for the area.

Just thought I would get to the bottom of the official story.....

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