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My buddy Marc flew in from Vancouver since the flooding last month shut down the Coquihalla. Jim and
Simon filled out the other two slots in the chopper and here's our first flight of the day.
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Jim says helicopters are pretty cool transportation mechanisms.
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Here is Simon about to drop into his first heli run into some glorious snow.
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Simon looks better with snow in his beard.
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You can see we had some decent snow on this day.
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A good look at the tail boom of an Astar B2.
The chopper landing at a pick-up point
Video from the top of a ridge at Eagle Pass
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Mark and our guide Matt watching the chopper land. Jim and Simon are waiting by the helicopter since
they took a wrong turn and went a bit farther down the drainage than we were.
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Looking back at the ridge we just skied from the other rib. We spent most of our ski day doing laps
on either side of a few different ribs on the east side of South Cranberry.
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Looking back down the drainage with Mt Hall on the right side. Simon says this is pretty fun skiing.
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Eagle Pass dropped a cooler with hot soup, sandwiches, and snacks for lunch. Definitely more fun to
not have to carry your lunch around all day! Jim says the hot soup is the cat's pyjamas!
Jim and Simon enjoying some powder turns
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This was the farthest south we went on this day, and this is looking up from the lake to Hughes Peak.
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This is Jim looking up to Hughes W3 peak.
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Since our warm-up ski day at Revy was blowing 100 km/hour all day, we took zero photos. However, Marc
got a couple of us at the Revelstoke. sign. And yes, the period is intentional. See the story and the
hand-painted sign from the rail station here .
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The boys pretty back lit after steaks and beers.
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Great stories and fun from the coolest animal in the kingdom - the Mantis Shrimp. With sexnocular vision
and a punch that shares the power of a 22 caliber bullet, it's a bad ass animal!
Video of a single chopper bump to the top of a ridge
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Marc just about to start a run. One of the many cool things about heli skiing is the fact that it's so time-dense. This means that once the
chopper drops us off though, it's a quick shimmy off the heli pad, get your gear ready, and off you go to the run and then the pick-up again.
So, operationally it's quick, but it's not as relaxing and chill as touring. Upside is you get ~3-5x the vertical in a day with no effort!
