Remember December 2009? Keith Kemplin at a Chuckanut trail junction. Click to enlarge
This website is dedicated to XC skiing in the Chuckanuts and western foothills of Whatcom and Skagit County.
Why “CHUCKANUT” cross country ski? In part, because I’m a geologist. I started this as a paeon to rare but wonderful XC skiing in the Chuckanut Mountains proper, south of Bellingham and to the west of I-5. It quickly expanded to include higher foothills further east. One thing that ties most of these trips together (so far) is the Chuckanut Formation- a geologic unit consisting of lithified Eocene flood plain deposits: sandstone, shale, conglomerate, coal. If you want to read more about that, go to this page at the Northwest Geology Field Trips website.
LA NINA is HERE, so skiing could be great in the winter of 2011-12. Post your XC skiing trail reports and photos to this blog, or send your links to Flickr or other online photo pages.
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This blog is managed by Dave Tucker, Bellingham, Washington. Thanks to the other folks who have contributed routes and information.
Google Earth image- the Western Foothills. Click to view.
