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Northern Escape Heli Skiing
2807 Skeena Street, Terrace BC
V8G 3K3, Canada
Mailing Address:
Northern Escape Heli Skiing
PO Box 59, Terrace, BC
V8G 4A2, Canada
How to Get Fit Pre Ski Season
Get fit for heli skiing and 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.
Stretching for the Entire Body
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 Heli 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
NOAA La Niña Forecast – La Niña 2018 Stronger than 2017
La Niña Forcast, October 12th, 2017 – John Forrest – Northern Escape Heli Skiing
Blower Pow thanks to La Niña.
There’s been hopes, there’s been whispers, and there’s been all out rumours, but it’s official now – NOAA released its long-range forecast for this winter and La Niña is back baby!
Not only is she back, but also the NOAA winter prediction is that La Niña will be stronger than the 2017 ski season. And, for anyone who was heli skiing in British Columbia last season, you know it’s going to be EPIC! Read more
Join Us for Heli Skiing In January 2018!
Join Us for Heli Skiing In January 2018!
Heli skiing in Canada – never too early to book your flight!
So you have made your heli ski package reservation with us here at Northern Escape Heli Skiing. Now it’s time to think about booking your flight to Terrace BC! Well, this guide will help you make your travel plans a little easier.
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Northern Escape Heli Skiing Offers Three Different Packages
Did you know we have 3 different heli ski packages for you to choose from?
Waist High Powder!
Classic Heli Skiing Package , Elite Heli Skiing Package , Private Heli Skiing Package. All of them offer a unique experience based on small groups. When it comes to similarities, besides small groups, all of our packages are all-inclusive! By booking either of our packages, you get: professional helicopter skiing guide services, cat skiing backup, accommodations, all meals and non-alcoholic beverages, use of our Barryvox avalanche transceivers as well as use of our snow pulse avalanche airbags, powder skis, poles and snowboards. Your transfers from the airport to our lodges and back are also included! Read more
Safety Is Number 1
At Northern Escape Safety Is Number 1. Not only for our guests but for our staff as well.
That’s why we are working on getting our COR certification. The Certificate of Recognition program (COR) is an occupational health and safety audit and certification that rewards employers that go above and beyond the legal requirements of the Workers Compensation Act and Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Regulations. It is a process that is not easily met, but we are up for the challenge! Read more
Heli Skiing booking guide
Guide to booking your heli ski vacation with Northern Escape Heli Skiing:
We get that question often and the answer is very simple: every month is the perfect month to go heli skiing. Mother nature is unpredictable and we take what we can get but to help you understand the average kind of weather we get here, we have come up with a brief description: January tends to be the stormiest and the deepest. We’ll spend about 70% of the time in the trees and 30% in the alpine. February tends to stabilize some, the skiing and riding is still quite deep and we spend about a 50/50 split between trees and alpine. March starts to see the weather stabilize even more. The skiing is deep, but just a little more settled. We tend to spend about 70% of the time in the alpine and 30% in the trees at this time.
2) Which package and how many days should I book?
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100000 Vertical ft in 3 days
Can you imagine skiing 100000 vertical ft in 3 days?
For this group, it was the perfect storm; excellent flying weather, awesome mountain conditions, and a group of stoked guests with the Unlimited Vertical add-on to the Elite Package.
The self proclaimed ‘Heli 40 Crew’ made up of nine men from different parts of the United States didn’t even all know each other at the beginning of the trip. “Everyone knows someone,” Nate Jenkins explains, “but no one knows everyone.” Read more
Gourmet Heli-Skiing Meals
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The Benefits of Stretching & Massage for Heli Skiers
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Ring in the New Year at Northern Escape
Picture this… Deep Powder, great friends and a fireworks display that will knock your socks off! Ring in the New Year in style!
That is what we have planned for our New Year’s Eve Ski package at the Yellow Cedar Lodge. Take your pick from a 3, 4 or 5 day Classic Heli-Ski package that all end on new year’s day. We ran this package last year and our guests had a blast. The snow at this time of the year is usually light dry fluffy powder not to mention DEEP, as the storms blast the coast mountains.
From flute glasses to fat skis, ring in the new year slipping on our exclusive champagne powder.
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Packing for Heli-Skiing
Packing for any trip is a process that few look forward to; decisions need to be made about what to bring and what to leave behind; Packing for heli skiing at Northern Escape Heli Skiing in Terrace, BC, Canada, is no exception.
With specific needs for skiing, snowboarding, and lodge life, here are a few recommendations from Northern Escape staff and past guests on what essentials to bring with you. Read more
Heli Ski Season Approaches
As the Heli Ski season approaches, it seems the Long Range Forecast to date has been pretty much correct and the early season snow keeps on building deeper and deeper! Reports and observations confirm that this past week alone, we received over 2 meters (6 feet) of snow, treeline and above, and it’s showing no signs of stopping! We expect to see another 1 to 2 meters (3 to 6 feet) more over the next several days. Read more
PRESEASON HELI SKI EXERCISE
Here Comes the Snow!
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Electronic Travel Authorization?
Winter Forecast = SNOW
The new winter forecast is snow.
Jet stream on the war path!
It puts ENSO (EL NIÑO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION) neutral conditions lasting well into fall before Ullr’s prized pow arrives for the winter. However, that same forecast has the jet stream moving further north as a ridge builds along the Pacific Crest, giving way to large snowfall totals for the Pacific North West, along with coastal and interior British Columbia. We are excited about this winter forecast for snow, snow, snow. Read more
We Are Back!
We Are Back ~ in the office that is!
It is that time of year again when we reassemble the crew to start planning the upcoming Heli Ski season. After a long summer we are all very excited for the snow to fall and have our guests arrive. This is a busy time at NEH as there is a lot of things that need to happen in what feels like a short amount of time. Doesn’t help that all we can think about is SNOW! The weather in Terrace has been more in line with what we consider “normal”. It feels like we are for a cold stormy winter which means Deep Dry POW! Read more