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Alison Godfrey and News.com.au (of Australia) go into overdrive to extol the virtues of heli-ski-touring in British Columbia, where you can ski with guzzlers and grizzlies ...
The world's most exciting ski tour is in British Columbia, Canada
http://www.news.com.au/travel/holiday-ideas/the-worlds-most-extreme-ski-tour/story-e6frfqer-1226599555196
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| There is a floating sensation as you make your turns in unspoiled snow. Sometimes it feels a bit like a dream because everything is so pure ... |
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| ... you are guaranteed to ski fresh, untracked powder |
[Not sure about that one - do you actually get money back if you don't - anyone know?]
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| There's always the bears. |
And they eat porridge, in the heli-ski lodge.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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puff piece for a heli operator
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Arno, agree but I still think it might be true. I once met a Californian tech multi-millionaire who was working his way around every decent skiing palce in the world. He'd done the Americas and Far East and was doing Europe. At that point he reckoned the Canadian heli-skiing was his fave. He couldn't speak French to save his life tho' and was a bit of pompous prick in a 'I'm hipper than you' way. And he had a pony tail and fcuked knees. So all-in-all I didn't feel really pissed off at the loaded, ski globe-trotting wazzock.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Don't know why the image won't embed?
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i spent 3 days with a guide around Whistler/Pemberton a couple of weeks ago. he guided for last frontier and said that really good heli days are few and far between and most of the time, routes were very much aimed at lowest common denominator. i don't have a lot of desire to do a week with a specialised heli operator now. if i wanted to blow a lot of cash on a cool canadian skiing experience, i'd hire this guide for a few days, tell him to find the funnest stuff available between Squamish and Pemberton areas and give him licence to organise helis as he saw fit
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Arno, Heli ops around Whistler are definitely for the 4 Seasons and Westin crowd. I think some of the CMH tenures can be pretty good from what I've heard talking to guides and staff provided you self select a heli load yourself.
You do see a lot of punters exhibiting decidedly punterish skills in their 1m ft CMH onesies however.
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| You do see a lot of punters exhibiting decidedly punterish skills in their 1m ft CMH onesies however. |
Snob.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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fatbob, in my fantasy scenario, it would be private drops with my guide. N Face of Mt Currie has gone onto the ticklist 
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| It's hard to imagine heli-skiing getting much more 'exciting' than AK |
I suspect that a trip to Kamchatka would help. Bears, volcanoes, and suspicious old Russian helicopters. What's not to like?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Don't know why the image won't embed? |
Forum software just looks for an image file suffix in the URL. Your web browser is told by the image server that the URL is for an image, so doesn't need to see a file extension.
Looks like a terrible place to go heliskiing though... you'll use up all your uplift in no time on a mountain like that 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Serriadh, sooo, how do I make it work? Not good with technology lol.
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| You do see a lot of punters exhibiting decidedly punterish skills in their 1m ft CMH onesies however. |
Snob. |
I feel entitled to be an inverse snob about CMH onesies as the only reasons to wear them are
a) to show other "ordinary" skiers how fabulously wealthy or accomplished you are to have done so much heli skiing or
b) because you're a cheapskate, despite having paid for lots of heli trips you don't buy something else less ostentatious.
By definition they're only handed out as a status symbol.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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| clarky999 wrote: |
| Serriadh, sooo, how do I make it work? |
You don't 
If you stole the image and re-uploaded it somewhere else you could give it a friendlier name. Nothing short of that (or some sort of admin intervention) will fix it.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Serriadh, thanks. If anyone wants to see it, follow the url - impressive face!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Went with CMH in 2006, was unbelievably good.
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In 38 years, CMH has had 11 fatalities. I don't know how that compares to other operators. To get a fair comparison, you'd have to compare the number of skiers to the number of deaths. CMH operates multiple sites and is both the largest and the oldest heli operator in the world.
As for the comments about the piece being hype for BC, with 95% of the world's heli skiing and arguably the best powder on the planet (Japan may dispute that but the terrain in Japan cannot compare), BC has a very solid claim to being the best place to heli ski.
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