Why Northern Escape Heli Skiing
Our location in Northern BC’s Skeena Range, with its far north latitude and proximity to powerful Pacific storms, produces one of the planet’s deepest, driest, and most reliable snowpacks. The terrain here is big and wild–alpine bowls, immense glaciers, steep couloirs, and epic tree skiing. This is big-mountain, backcountry skiing and snowboarding at its finest.
We have snowcats at the ready, so you can ride even on storm days when the machines can’t fly. Our boutique heli ski lodges are easy to reach from Vancouver via Terrace, BC. and in 2022 and now 2023, we were awarded ‘World’s Best Heli Ski Operation.’ by the World Ski Awards.
Escape to the North for a superior heli skiing adventure!
Snowcat Backup
Everyone dreams of those bluebird days with deep untouched powder. But all that snow has to come from somewhere and when it’s snowing too hard to safely fly a helicopter in the mountains, we smoothly transition to our Snowcat Skiing Backup. All of our Heli Ski Packages include a reserved seat in one of our three custom-outfitted and heated Snowcats that are always ready and standing by.
Although down days seldomly occur, they are a fact of life in the industry. We’re one of the only heliski operators anywhere to have this service. And if you ski less vertical than your heli package, we’ll even refund you the difference. So go riding instead of playing darts in the lodge.
Unlimited Vertical Option
Northern Escape Heli Skiing offers the industry’s leading vertical guarantee. With the addition of our Unlimited Vertical Option to either the Classic or Elite Ski Package, you’ll get unlimited helicopter skiing or heli boarding AND your minimum vertical guarantee is increased. So you’ll never have to worry about any extra vertical charges and if for some reason you don’t reach your limit, we’ll even credit back the difference.
World’s Best Heli Ski Operator
World Ski Awards 2022 & 2023
Northern Escape Heli Skiing was officially named as the World’s Best Heli-Ski Operator at the World Ski Awards of 2022 and 2023. The World Ski Awards is the only global initiative to recognize, reward and celebrate excellence in ski tourism. Winning this award is considered the highest achievement in global ski hospitality.
We were nominated alongside the finest ski resorts, hotels and chalets from the world’s leading 25 ski tourism nations. To win, we required votes from the global ski industry. From travel agents & ski media to tourism industry partners, tour operators and guests, we needed everyone’s votes to make this happen. We are extremely happy and grateful when it did!
Now we can officially say, when you come and stay with us, you are getting the Best Heli-Ski Experience In The World!
“Great Heliskiing, DEEEP Powder, Huge Terrain, Wicked tree skiing, Awesome food.”
Bernt B, Norway
“The terrain is immense and access is easy. There are other places with great terrain, but you need a 7hr bus ride to get there.”
Mike K, Colorado
“The helicopters are small and fast and you can have the place to yourself. I’ve been 15 times.”
John C. Bozeman, MT
Carbon Neutral Heli Skiing
Northern Escape Heli-Skiing is a carbon neutral company. Synergy Enterprises, a leading carbon accounting firm, measured our year-over-year greenhouse gas emissions. We then offset our footprint with Offsetters, Canada’s leading full service carbon management solutions provider. Their carbon offset projects are verified and validated by third parties to ensure that the emission reductions are real, additional and permanent. The project that we are supporting is the Great Bear Forest Carbon Project. Along with the climate benefits it provides, it supports the First Nations communities of the Great Bear Rainforest. We’re proud to do business while taking positive action on climate change.
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