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La Nina Holidaying in Terrace

powder skiing

La Nina spent the holidays here at her home in Terrace. Over the past four days she blessed them with well over 1.5m of new snow and it’s deep up there! Northern Escape helicopters arrive in a few days Read More →

Shames: My Mountain Co-Op

Shames Mountain

Shames Mountain, the ‘little ski area that rocks’, tucked away near Terrace BC, is up for sale. The asking price? A cool $1.5 million. When locals were faced with loosing their ski area a community initiative was started. My Read More →

Friends of Shames: A Skier's Journey

Shames Mountain

If your beloved ski hill ran out of money and had no choice but to close, what would you do? With time running out for majestic Shames Mountain in Northern BC, local skiers from Terrace, Prince Rupert, and Kitimat Read More →

New Snow in the Mountains!

New snow at Northern Escape

Yep, snow in the mountains already… Most of you had a hot summer, but in Northwest BC home of Northern Escape, they seem to have skipped Summer and went straight to Fall. With this year’s predicted return of La Read More →

Northern Escape Boasts 100% Skier Days

Northern Escape

That’s right, 100% skier days with no down time. It’s a lofty claim, but they have skied everyday of the winter thus far and that includes doing turns right through one of the biggest storms BC has seen in Read More →

Northern Escape Heli Skiing Launches SnowCats!

Northern Escape Snowcats

Northern Escape Heli-Skiing launched their back up snowcat population this weekend with great success. NEH’s new snowcat terrain Late last summer NEH purchased two snowcats and worked hard all fall to open their long-awaited snowcat area. The work included Read More →

Northern Escape Buys Two Snowcats

snowcat

Northern Escape Heli-Skiing, located in BC’s remote Northwest, has long been renowned for providing the deepest, most reliable, snowpack on the planet and as we know, all that deep fluffy stuff doesn’t fall from blue skies… It Snows up Read More →

Everything is White In the North

traverse

I expected the snow to be white and untracked and it was. It was the other white tracks that were a complete surprise. On the first afternoon of our heli-ski trip we encountered high avalanche and poor flying conditions Read More →

Terrace's Northern Escape & Shames

Northern Escape Heli

My trip to Terrace was more than getting together with my ski buddy, Owen. It was a celebration of his surviving a 19 minute avalanche burial under a meter of snow in Chile followed by a quadruple bypass heart Read More →