Snow Artists at Work

When conditions are this good, watching the guests and guides carving fresh lines in the snow is like watching an artist at work on a blank page. The rhythm and flow as they effortlessly bounce from turn to turn and send powder face shots up with each compression is breathtaking!

With another bluebird day and the sun glowing as their backdrop, the guests this week have taken good advantage of our unlimited vertical package and chalked up over 42000.

The limbs may be weary at night but each morning everyone makes it to the yoga stretching session and is raring to go by the time we take off in the helicopter.

More snow is on its way at the end of this week - so it just gets better and better!

Check out the photos of the week in our Week 4 photo album.

2010 Week 4 Photos

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2010 Week 4 Starts on a High!

The first guests arrived yesterday for week 4 and had an awesome day of skiing, 11 runs with over 7350m of vertical skied!

Add to that the pure blue skies and sunshine all day and snow conditions at their best now the fresh snow (275cm last week!) has had a few days to settle in to create a skiers paradise. Suffice to say as the weary limbs returned to the chalet there were some very happy faces beaming at apres.

Yoga this morning was well attended to loosen up the muscles for today's skiing- more of the same looks to be on the agenda as the clouds dissipated from the lake and the helicopter disappeared up into the Alpine.

10 skiers have headed up in the 2-12 today and they are certainly making the most of their unlimited vertical every day.

Check out some of the awesome photos in our albums here.

2010 Week 2 Heliskiing kicks off

The 2010 Heliskiing is well underway, the guests have all had their transceiver training at the lodge and started the week with a helicopter briefing, learning the do's and don'ts of boarding and disembarking a helicopter on a mountain with all your ski gear- it certainly gets the excitement and adrenalin running.

Day 1 we had some freezing rain rain so only got out for a half day, nevertheless that meant good snow up top and we squeezed in 2100m of vertical. Day 2 saw a full day and 4250m of vertical skied, everyone had big grins and exhausted legs at the end of the day.

Day 3- was a down day with freezing rain at the lodge we embarked on a game of Ice hockey Canada vs Austria. It was rather competitive and I believe both sides claimed the win! Lots of fun had by all of course!

Day 4 - we got our first Alpine runs under our skis!

Landing at the tip of Ambrosia we found 120cm of fresh new snow. Sweet!

There were big grins all round as we swept through the deep snow through the Ochre zone. A couple of tumbles just added to the grin factor.

On our second run, unfortunately Glen took a tumble and tweaked his knee so the guides sprung into action to diagnose the issue and help him out- but no need for an evac he was back up on his skis and took a steady slow run out while we whizzed down to the helicopter.


By the third run down Hagar, the conditions just got better and better and we were all yelping with delight at a sweet run. The next run saw a few tumbles along the way- pretty energetic and entertaining efforts to dig yourself out of this deep stuff.

Lunch is always a welcome sight - all sitting around a snow table by the helicopter, surrounded by mountain views soup and tea warming us up and some freshly baked cookies- yum! It started to snow again and we were back in the helicopter, over to Tillsworth descending through the open runs into the treeline this time.

4500m of vertical - awesome!


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Snow Artists at Work

When conditions are this good, watching the guests and guides carving fresh lines in the snow is like watching an artist at work on a blank page. The mountains here are our gallery. The rhythm and flow as the skiers and boarders effortlessly bounce from turn to turn and send powder face shots up with each compression is breathtaking!

With another bluebird sky and the sun glowing as their backdrop, the guests this week have taken good advantage of our unlimited vertical package and chalked up over 42000.

The limbs may be weary at night but each morning everyone makes it to the yoga stretching session and is raring to go by the time we take off in the helicopter.

There have been a couple of adrenalin shots too, jumping out of a hovering helicopter was a true highlight today and pulling Mike out of a tree well earlier this week was a good reminder why we buddy up to ride the trees!

More snow is on its way at the end of this week - so it just gets better and better!

Check out the photos of the week in our Week 4 photo album.