John Eaves captures an amazing day in the Upper Canoe Valley at CMH Valmont. He and friends, Francois Lafon, Tony Carel, Anjan Truffer and Danny Stoffel, are on a run called Little Matterhorn surrounded by the North and South Canoe Glaciers. John commented, “I have always wanted to expose the beauty of this area with …
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John has never lost his appetite for powder and CMH Valemount powder represents the best!
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We were impressed with the amount of snow already accumulating in the alpine glacier and into treeline.
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Silver Tip Lodge Heli Skiing has changed ownership effective August 26th.
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11 lodges and 3.1 million acres off the best pow terrain in BC
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Western Canada, and in particular British Columbia, is the most densely populated heli and cat skiing area on the globe. With its majestic coastal ranges rising out of ocean in the west, to the rocky mountains connecting Canada to Colorado in the south, with its incredible ability to produce large amounts of snowfall. These combinations, …
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In “Heli-Skiing Is the Best Drug I Have Ever Taken,” Huffington Post writer Blake Fleetwood waxes poetic on “floating down on clouds of my own creation”
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A majority of avalanche deaths in Canada involve heli-skiers.
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Aside from her friendly personality and kind smile, there is something unique about her that may not be noticeable immediately.
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John Eaves was brought up by skiing legends (his mother, Rhoda Wurtele, and aunt, Rhona Wurtele, were Canada’s first Olympic female skiers), he won a combined six World Championships in two different freestyle skiing disciplines, went to Woodstock (and still plays a mean riff on lead guitar), and had stints as a British Secret Service …
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A widow whose husband died while heli-skiing with Mike Wiegele, says his “ski buddy” is responsible for his death, a BC Supreme Court heard Monday. Elizabeth Kennedy’s husband, Mark, died in January 2009. Mark Kennedy was a founding partner at Denver law firm Wheeler Trigg Kennedy. Kennedy, born in 1952, co-founded the firm in February …
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Mica Heliskiing has announced a 42% increase in the size of its industry-renowned ski and boarding terrain
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