Q: Heli-Boarding in Canada

....is a thing a definitly want to do soon.

But which area is the best to go, and can you recommend any companies?
Has anyone of you made some good/worse experiences?

As I would rank me as a good snowboarder, the hills should be challenging,
but not toooo steep...

Han Solo

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:52:20 +0000 (UTC), Han Solo
wrote:

...is a thing a definitly want to do soon.

But which area is the best to go, and can you recommend any companies?
Has anyone of you made some good/worse experiences?

As I would rank me as a good snowboarder, the hills should be challenging,
but not toooo steep...

Han Solo

the area near Panorama Bc has heli skiing...if i remember the name i
will post it here...

"Han Solo" wrote in message
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...is a thing a definitly want to do soon.

But which area is the best to go, and can you recommend any companies?
Has anyone of you made some good/worse experiences?

As I would rank me as a good snowboarder, the hills should be challenging,
but not toooo steep...

Han Solo

RK Heli is based in Panorama BC

www.skipanorama.com

Si

Prior to the stampede Han Solo tryped

But which area is the best to go, and can you recommend any companies?
Has anyone of you made some good/worse experiences?

I went to Panorama in January and a guy I met there went Heli Boarding twice
with RK HeliSki and loved both trips. One was a three run 'beginner' heli
ski trip and the other one was more technical doing five drops. He said he
was ripping up the skiers on the first three dropper the five drop was a lot
more difficult and smoe of them were waiting for him at the bottom. Rave
reviews from everybody I spoke to who did it but you'd better get a move on
as the end of the season is coming.

www.panoramaresort.com

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"Han Solo" wrote in message
.8...
...is a thing a definitly want to do soon.

But which area is the best to go, and can you recommend any companies?
Has anyone of you made some good/worse experiences?

As I would rank me as a good snowboarder, the hills should be challenging,
but not toooo steep...

Han Solo

http://www.canadianmountainholidays..../snowboarding/

But which area is the best to go, and can you recommend any companies?
Has anyone of you made some good/worse experiences?

It depends what you're after. Unless you're a hot-shot then you're
probably best starting at a resort based place; you don't want to find
yourself in the middle of nowhere for a week if you can't hack it. The
catch with resort-based stuff is that it does tend to attract
beginners, and you don't get much vertical (5 runs is very slow, you'd
expect at least twice that at a back-country operation).

Some info & pictures about Canadian heli-boarding he
http://www.wigglesworld.klebos.com/s...oard/index.htm

(phil) wrote in message . com...
But which area is the best to go, and can you recommend any companies?
Has anyone of you made some good/worse experiences?

It depends what you're after. Unless you're a hot-shot then you're
probably best starting at a resort based place; you don't want to find
yourself in the middle of nowhere for a week if you can't hack it. The
catch with resort-based stuff is that it does tend to attract
beginners, and you don't get much vertical (5 runs is very slow, you'd
expect at least twice that at a back-country operation).

I agree with Phil. I did my first ever heli day this year at
Whistler's Heli operation. I did four runs and it took all day. It
was a great intro, and I didn't have to pony up for a full week at one
of the lodge based operations. I was at the upper end of the skill
level spectrum in my group and found the waiting to be a bit
frusterating at times.

Don't underestimate your still level as others will likely
overestimate theirs.

I was in an "advanced" group with some snowboarders who had lots of
trouble with things like carrying enough speed to stay on top of the
powder or traversing across an exposed slope to get to less avalance
prone terrain.

Enjoy!

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:47:52 GMT, (Mark Andersen)
allegedly wrote:

I was in an "advanced" group with some snowboarders who had lots of
trouble with things like carrying enough speed to stay on top of the
powder or traversing across an exposed slope to get to less avalance
prone terrain.

This can be the annoying thing. IIR, these resort based operations ask
customers what kind of runs they do on the hill. If people say they're
comfortable on blacks, they get put into the advanced group - despite the
fact that they may have very little powder experience.

Maybe more people should complain if there's too many slow coaches in
their group. The operators may (or may not) take notice.

- Dave.

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[...] IIR, these resort based operations ask
customers what kind of runs they do on the hill. If people say they're
comfortable on blacks, they get put into the advanced group - despite the
fact that they may have very little powder experience.

The easiest discriminator is experience: either you've done it before
or you haven't. If you came back for more then you're probably
reasonably competent, plus they have records of your vertical. Some
operators score 80% repeat visitors, so that's most of the problem
sorted.

As for the rest the operator will start out on something with few
trees and fairly flat. All it takes is one turn to know if someone's
going to be ok or not. The guides watch those first turns very
carefully, then shuffle people about as required.

It usually works out, although if you become especially good then you
end up renting your own helicopter (and hence picking your own crew)
as there is still a wide range of expertise.

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:33:30 GMT, (phil) allegedly
wrote:

As for the rest the operator will start out on something with few
trees and fairly flat. All it takes is one turn to know if someone's
going to be ok or not. The guides watch those first turns very
carefully, then shuffle people about as required.

I did it at Whistler twice... and there was no shuffling of groups despite
obvious ability gaps. But that was a fair few years ago now, and it was
still good fun.

- Dave.

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