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P.O. Box 59, Terrace, BC
V8G 4A2, Canada.
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Radio Communication Safety at NE Heli Skiing
Communication Is Key
Have you ever wondered how our communication radios have such a large range?
It all has to do with a whole network of devices spread out all over our vast heli skiing terrain. It takes a lot of logistics to make a heli ski day happen and at the heart of it all is our heli ski radio communications system.
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Interview With Jens Larsens – Head Chef at NE Heli Skiing
Get to know Jens Larsen:
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Jens Larsen’s New Après Ski Cocktail Recipes…
As Executive Chef and Assistant Lodge Manager, I strive each season to improve our food and beverage service for guests here at Northern Escape Heli Skiing in British Columbia, Canada. For my third season with Northern Escape, I will step a bit back from “time at the stove” in order to assist in managing lodge logistics and front of house. I look forward to creating new experiences for the 2019 heli ski season, including new Après Ski cocktail recipes!
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Catland Cat Skiing Zone
Location – 27km N of Yellow Cedar Lodge
(North end of the Promised Land ski region)
At NE Heli Skiing, we want you to have the best heli skiing/ heli boarding experience possible. Our Catland Cat skiing zone is our Cat Skiing back-up area with over 50 km (31 miles) of snow roads and 7,000 acres of tree skiing. This Cat ski region is the place to be when it’s snowing too hard to fly our helicopters to heli skiing elevations. Every heli skiing package we offer includes a reserved seat in one of our 3 Snowcats! Our Catland Cat skiing zone isn’t used often (we average 6.5 days of heli each week) but when it is, it’s amazing skiing and riding in the old growth forests of British Columbia, Canada.
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Promised Land Heli Skiing Zone
Location – 20Km N of Yellow Cedar Lodge
Out of 12 heli skiing zones within our terrain in BC’s Skeena Mountains, the Promised Land heli skiing zone is a favorite.
Northern Escape Heli Skiing in British Columbia, Canada, operates one of the industry’s largest terrains (5,500 sq. km), “Approximately 1/8th the size of Switzerland!”
The majority of poor weather heli skiing terrain we operate exists inside the Promised Land heli skiing zone. However, this steep tree skiing region also offers a large portion of the bread and butter alpine skiing. For our international guests, the Promised Land heli skiing zone is the ‘go to’ heli skiing zone.
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Snowboarding in Deep Powder
Airborne Powder Boarding
Powder Boarding Tips
In an earlier post our heli ski experts offered some great tips on how to ski powder so in this blog post we’d like to share four deep powder boarding tips.
To help you get the most of your heli snowboarding experience here at Northern Escape in British Columbia, Canada, try the following for snowboarding in deep powder:
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Mammut Pulse Barryvox Avalanche Transceiver System
Barryvox Avalanche Tranceiver
When you come to heli ski with us here in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, Northern Escape Heli Skiing will provide you with a Mammut Pulse Barryvox Avalanche Transceiver. Safety is our number one priority and this essential piece of safety equipment is something you must carry at all times.
Approximately 90% of all buried skiers will be found alive if they are found within the first 15 minutes. The Pulse Barryvox Avalanche Transceiver is designed to do just that…it will find someone who is buried quickly and accurately.
In this post, our heli ski experts will offer a brief overview of the Pulse Barryvox Avalanche Transceiver and explain its many features, and how it can help save your life.
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Snowpulse Avalanche Airbag Backpack System
Avalanche Airbag System
In this NE Heli Skiing blog post we’ll take a closer look at the Snowpulse Avalanche Airbag Backpack System and outline exactly what they do…and how they can save your life.
At Northern Escape Heli Skiing, safety has always been our number one priority. While heli skiing in British Columbia Canada, one of the most essential pieces of safety equipment we provide to all of our heli ski guests is the Snowpulse Avalanche Airbag Backpack.
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Typical Day – Heli Skiing Itinerary in BC Canada
In this blog post, we offer a brief overview of our Northern Escape Heli Skiing itinerary. What does a typical heli ski day look like at Northern Escape Heli Skiing in British Columbia, Canada?
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Top Reasons to Heli Ski in BC Canada
Tree Heli Skiing in BC Canada
In this post, we’ll look at the Top Reasons to heli ski BC Canada and why so many come from all over the world to heli ski with Northern Escape Heli Skiing.
Heli skiing was born in British Columbia Canada. But did you know that over half of the world’s heli skiing operations are located here in BC?
Since 2004, guests from as far away as Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Italy, Australia, and the United States have come to heli ski BC Canada with Northern Escape Heli Skiing.
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Heli Skiing FAQ BC Canada
Powder Covered Mountain Top – BC Heli Skiing
In this heli skiing FAQ blog post, our NE Heli Skiing experts want to address some of the most frequently asked questions about heli skiing in British Columbia, Canada. These are the most common questions we get asked by our international guests who visit us from as far away as Norway, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, France, and the United States, among others.
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About British Columbia Canada
Heli Skier On Top of the World
In this blog post, Northern Escape Heli Skiing offers some interesting facts about British Columbia (BC), the third largest province in Canada in terms of size and population.
At Northern Escape, we are privileged to entertain heli skiing guests from all over the world. International guests visit us from Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States, to name a few.
There’s so much to learn about British Columbia, or “Beautiful British Columbia” as the locals like to call it. BC is nearly as large as Germany and France combined. In fact, at 946,000 square kilometers (365,000 sq. miles), BC is larger than all of Norway, the UK, and Italy combined!
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Boutique Heli Skiing in Canada
Hovering Over the Heli Ski Site
British Columbia (BC) Canada, where heli skiing was born, is blessed to be able to offer boutique heli skiing for nearly 5 months out of the year, from mid-December through to late April, depending on the location.
This is amazing when you consider that most heli ski locations around the world have a much shorter heli ski season – usually less than 4 months. In fact, in North America, BC has a longer heli skiing season than any location in the USA including Alaska!
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Best Time to Go Heli Skiing in Canada
Overlooking the Heli Ski Mountains of BC
When is the best time to heli ski in Canada?
Most Canadian heli skiing operations are found in British Columbia (BC), Canada’s western-most province. People have been heli skiing in BC for more than 50 years.
Although 75% of BC is mountainous, the warm Pacific Ocean helps to keep the weather quite moderate in the southern BC area of Vancouver. In Vancouver it rains a lot and temperatures rarely dip below freezing.
However, in the North Central region of BC, it’s a whole different story. At Northern Escape Heli Skiing in Terrace, just 2 hours easy access by air from Vancouver, instead of rain, it snows…a lot. The best time to heli ski in Canada, especially in Terrace, is between December and April when the average temperature is down around minus 5 to minus 10 degrees Celsius (14 F).
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Deep Powder Skiing Tips
How to Ski Powder
Tree Heli Skiing At It’s Best!
In this post, our heli ski experts offer some deep powder skiing tips to help you get the most of your heli skiing experience here in British Columbia, Canada.
Our Top 5 deep powder skiing tips include:
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Teddy Allsopp – NE Heli Skiing Partner Profile
Teddy Alsopp Doing what he loves to do!
Ted Allsopp, Teddy, as we all know him, is one of Canada’s most passionate skiers and the subject of this week’s focus on our 3 part series showcasing our Northern Escape Heli Skiing partners.
Teddy is a true skier at heart. Stand in any lift line in western Canada (maybe the world) and mention his name, and you will be amazed by how many people speak out and let you know Teddy is a good friend of theirs.
In addition to his many business ventures in the restaurant and bar industry, Teddy will tell you it all started with a ski tour company out of Edmonton Alberta, The Downhill Riders.
Teddy was the co founder of Downhill Riders Ski and Travel Company, which became one of Western Canada’s largest ski tour operators for downhill skiers and snowboarders. Downhill Riders hosted over 100,000 guests over 30 years operating ski tours throughout Western Canada, the USA, Europe, Japan, and South America.
His adventures as a ski tourism entrepreneur first began with Teddy convincing a busload of friends to go to Jasper to ski for the weekend. Teddy’s commissions gave him a free weekend of skiing and beer money. Being the entrepreneur he is, Teddy turned this into a much larger business with many weekends having 20 or 30 buses filled with his friends going skiing and snowboarding.
John Forrest, our NE Heli Skiing president and general manager, actually first met Teddy back in the mid 80’s on one of these ski trips and they became good friends. They eventually became business partners in Northern Escape Heli Skiing. Read more
Our Partners – Presented by Northern Escape Heli Skiing
Airborne While Heli Boarding in BC
Based out of Terrace British Columbia, Canada, Northern Escape Heli Skiing was founded by four friends, John, Benny, Teddy and Dave. In just 15 years, they built our company into what it is now, a world-class heli skiing operation that attracts heli skiers and heli boarders from around the globe.
Anyone who has visited our operation has met John. As the President and Managing Partner of the NE Heli Skiing, John is around daily and remains active as one of the team’s leading heli ski guides.
The other three partners, Benny, Teddy, and Dave are not at the forefront as often, but they are just as active behind the scenes. For all of them, the love for skiing and adventure is ever present. What follows are some short backgrounders on who these guys are because each is rather cool in their own right. Read more
How to Get Fit Pre Ski Season
Stretching for the Entire Body
Don’t be caught floundering in the powder this heli ski season due to sore muscles; with a little pre ski season workout you can get your body ready for the mountains.
Training your body and choosing exercises to get fit for skiing is a nebulous concept at best. After all, how hard is it to prepare for heli skiing or boarding when you are just carving through deep powder and then riding a helicopter back to the top of the mountain?
Don’t be fooled into thinking that heli skiing fitness is over-rated. You’ll be using muscles that most likely, you haven’t engaged a lot during the off-season. And keep in mind; heli skiing and heli boarding are definitely high intensity sports. You can enjoy your heli skiing trip a lot more by preparing your body ahead of time. In the end, you won’t regret investing a little time and doing the right exercises to get fit for skiing…but you may regret it if you don’t! Read more
The Right Fit – A Ski Boot Fitting Guide
(Editor’s Note – This original blog post from November 2014 has been updated to reflect current ski boot fitting practices.)
How tight should a ski boot fit and how important is a custom ski boot fitting?
Ski Boot Fit – Get Help
Have you ever had a ski boot fit so uncomfortable that you’re sure the only solution is amputation? Before things get that drastic you should consider asking for professional ski boot fitting advice.
When it comes to finding the right ski boot fit, there are a few things you should keep in mind.
Ski Boots Should Not Be Painful
First and foremost it is important to realize that not only should your ski boots not cause you pain, but also the ski boot fit (or ill-fit) can drastically affect your skiing ability.
Too many times have we encountered skiers that are struggling needlessly to overcome poor fitting ski boots.
In order to help you avoid having to cut your heli skiing days short due to pain caused by ill fitting ski boots this season, our Northern Escape Heli Skiing staff caught up with 25-year veteran ski boot fitter Glen Delboscoe, who laid out a ski boot fitting guide and shared a story of an extreme reaction to sore feet. Read more
Ski Helmets for Heli Skiing
John Forrest – Northern Escape Heli Skiing Oct 13th, 2017
Mind the Gap!
It’s amazing, I remember being a ski patrol back in the 80’s and wondering how long it would be before everyone would be wearing ski helmets. This was when some of the first recreational helmets were starting to be used on the ski hill. Now here we are, nearly four decades later and it’s now the norm to ski with a helmet. The only people you see holding out are the old bearded guys with duct-tape covering the rips in their pants and over the leaky gaps in their ski boot toe boxes.
Now-a-days ski helmets are simply accepted as part of the gear required to go skiing. A few years ago, Work Safe BC, the employee insurance plan of BC, invoked a new law (well actually, just reminded us all of the existing law we had been unaware of or ignored) that stipulated that all employees engaged in “sliding” activities would need to wear a helmet. Thus, now you’ll see us heli ski guides wearing helmets as well. Read more