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Terrain: |
| Southeast Alaska Backcounty Adventures was formed and founded by a group of outdoor enthusiasts, that live, work, and play in Haines, Alaska. Proud to be the only all inclusive heli and snowcat skiing destination in Haines, we have been working hard to produce the best skiing product in North America. SEABA staff has the knowledge and expirience to provide the best heliski expirience for all abilities. We have more step in client terrain than any other Alaskan operator, and have a collection of the highest densities of runs in the Coast mountains. This allows us to average 9 runs a day with 4 groups to a helicopter, and we are not farming!
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SEABA terrain is some of the best in the world. Located 85 miles from the Pacific Coast, several mountain ranges have collided in this area to form a densely packed area full of runs. Because of the density of the range, we enjoy short flight times and numerous aspects and terrain choices through all of our skiing circuits. Our mountains tend to fend off wind and inclement weather that the Pacific Ocean and the Canadian interior try to bomabard us with. The result, deep untracked fresh powder.
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| Helicopters: |
Group/Lift Size: |
| Eurocopter A-star AS 350 BA, B, and B2s
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Our group size per lift is generally 4-5 depending on heliconfiguration and how many guides are in the ship.
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| Location: |
Closest Major Airport: |
| Haines, Alaska top of the Inside Passage, 90 air miles north of Juneau, Alaska.
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Juneau, Alaska also Whitehorse, Yukon Territory flying in from Frankfurt,Germany
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| Standard Packages Offered: |
Packages Include: |
| Daily, 5, 7, and 10 day packages
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SEABA packages include dawn till dusk guiding and entertainment. Whether you are in the bar or the gnarr, we take care of our customers, period! Also these packages include, two meals ( breakfast and dinner) transportation to all activities, lodging, and guided skiing for the package duration.
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| Average Vertical: |
Price of Extra Vertical: |
| Our average vertical is 3,000 feet or 1,000 meters per run, with some run over 5,000 verrtical feet
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Price of extra vertical is $35 per 1,000 feet, sold in 10,000 vertical foot blocks.
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| Average Snowfall: |
Maximum number of guests: |
| Our average snowfall is around 500 inches per season.
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Our maximum number of guests is 20 per helicopter. This insures a quality expirience and lots of skiing. We pride ourselves on limiting wait times to 15 minutes or less between lifts.
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| Minimum age requirement: |
Powder skis required: |
| Our minumum age requirement is 16 years of age, skiing with a guardian or relative.
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We have state of the art K2 powder skis available for rental. We are currently working on a snow board program as well. One note is that the airlines will be charging you for your skis and excess baggage. If you want to reserve skis in Haines for your trip please let us know. Weekly rental is $250
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| Level of skiing/snowboarding required for first timers: |
Hotels recommended for pre & post accommodation: |
| Our prospective clients should be able to ski confidently down any run at their home resort. This includes managing tight turns, some drops, angles up to 55 degrees, and have skills to mitigate poor or adverse snow conditions.This does not represent the terrain we always ski but what we might encounter during our day.
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Not needed as our package includes accomodations with full service steak and seafood restaurant and lively apres ski bar!
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| How guests arrive: |
The best time to arrive: |
| All flights from abroad must arrive in Juneau, Alaska or Whitehorse, Yukon Territory if flyiing in from Europe in April. From Juneau a small commuter flight can get you to Haines in 40 minutes, or if scheduled correctly you can also use the Alaska Marine Highway. www.ferryalaska.com Flight times from the East Coast of the U.S. should be able to get you to Juneau in one travel day. Once you arrive in Haines our courteous staff will pick you up from the airport or ferry terminals.
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Unfortunately, it is hard to arrive when you would ideally like to be there, which is in the morning of the day your package starts. If you are in Juneau or Whitehorse the night before your trip begins you have a better chance of getting to Haines that next day before noon and in the heli before the day is done.
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| Year-round services: |
Why Us: |
| While staying in Haines, Alaska at the Fort Seward Lodge, our lodging partner, you can enjoy a host of activities, guided or self entertained; including fishing for salmon, trout or halibut, river rafting, sea kayaking, hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, birding, and wildlife viewing. Our other winter activities include, snowshoeing, nordic skiing, snowmobiling, and bar hopping. Generally our down day activities are skeet shooting, fishing, disc golf, snowmobile rentals, water polo.
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We simply have guided the most days in Haines area, which gives us more options. We also are the only company in Haines that has snowcats as back up for our limited down days that is exclusive to our customers. If you are skiing with the competition you do not have a seat on the cat, thus, no skiing for you when others are. Also we have a huge selection of 2,000 vert runs that are all timber, so for down days if you are not cat skiing, we still are killing the vert in the heli. That all said, for a little more money we take the worries out of Alaskan Heliski trips, we are the face of Heliskiing in Alaska.
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