| Description: |
Terrain: |
| 30 years of experience, family-owned, the ”right” attitude with service and smiles for our heliskiing guests, and committed to helping us make this the best operation in Canada! |
The size of our skiing tenure offers a huge variety of skiing terrain. We have over 80% open bowls and glaciated terrain plus 20% gladded or tree skiing. In case of poorer weather we can offer treed skiing minutes form the hotel. Over 60% of our ski able terrain is glaciated. We have south facing glaciers extending down to 2500ft above sea level.
Our terrain consists of 3,370 Square Kilometers or 834,227 acres, or 1300 Square miles. |
| Helicopters: |
Group/Lift Size: |
| Bell 407 and an Astar B2
Our helicopter company is E&B Helicopters. Very skilled pilots, impeccably maintained machinery including indoor maintenance. |
4 or 5 per lift |
| Location: |
Closest Major Airport: |
| The base of our operation is 3 major icefield or 400 Km (240 miles) Northwest of Whistler. We ski around the Northeastern edge of the Pacific range and the Southeastern edge of the Kitimat range |
Vancouver International Airport (YVR) |
| Standard Packages Offered: |
Packages Include: |
| We have 5 and 7 day packages available for our land based operation and 5 day packages for our Ship (Ocean Explorer) based packages. |
All packages include food, accommodation, use of Hotel facilities, flights from Vancouver South terminal to Bella Coola return, Guide service, safety equipment, local transport, 70,000 vertical guaranteed for the 5 day package, 100,000 for the 7 day package and 12 hours flying for the 5 day ship based package. |
| Average Vertical: |
Price of Extra Vertical: |
| The average run is 800 meters (2500 ft). The longest run yet skied is 5650 ft (1800m). The average vertical per day is 24,650 ft (7770m). |
Extras vertical is charged at $80.00/1000m (3200ft), or $28.00/1000ft. |
| Average Snowfall: |
Maximum number of guests: |
| 45 - 70 feet |
The Bell 407 holds 5 guests plus guide and pilot, and the Astar holds 4 guests plus guide and pilot. We will have three groups with 407and 2 groups with the ship based AStar helicopter. |
| Minimum age requirement: |
Powder skis required: |
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Atomic powder skis for rent. What ever happens on your flights, please make sure you bring your boots as carry on luggage. If your gear is lost in transit we can get you going with enough equipment and clothes. |
| Level of skiing/snowboarding required for first timers: |
Hotels recommended for pre & post accommodation: |
| Heli Skiing is best suited for those skiers and riders who can ski / ride down ANY run at a ski area in control. Fitness is key. So, GET FIT, enough said. |
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| How guests arrive: |
The best time to arrive: |
| Our packages include the flight from Vancouver International Airport. They will depart from the Vancouver Airport South Terminal at 1030 AM and arrive at Noon the same day. Charter flights are possible. It is possible to drive to Bella Coola. There is only one road in and out and it takes about 10 - 12 hours from Vancouver and 15 hours from Calgary. This would be mostly winter driving on secondary roads. |
The daily shuttle leaves Vancouver South Terminal at 10:30 AM. It arrives in Bella Coola Just before noon. From the Bella Coola Terminal we escort you to the hotel, get you checked in, have some lunch and get ready to ski the same day. It is possible and we encourage our guests to come ready to ski for the afternoon the first day. |
| Year-round services: |
Why Us: |
| We can offer river sport fishing, natural hot springs tours, coastal forest tours, First Nations art and culture, fish hatchery tours, weather permitting ocean boat tours. |
Aside from the great skiing and terrain, the setting is incredibly unique. Aside from the fact that there are still hundreds of runs never yet skied, and there is glaciation and huge open and gladed skiing to be had, we have now the opportunity to offer a ship based private operation. From many of our skied runs you can see the inlets that lead to the ocean 200 km away. Also, the ship base is for small intimate groups of 8. And for five days you can high-grade almost any and all of the terrain we have in our tenure. We have the best refund policy in the business. All our guides are ACMG, IFMGA or UIAGM guides with Wilderness First Aid training. We have been in the heli skiing business for thirty years. We have skied and explored with the icons in the industry. This will be our third year of offering skiing service in Bella Coola. |
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