Canada Part 1: Momma, I’m going fast!

February 4th, 2008 BlowSnow

Your ride is here.

Wow, it has been such an amazing few days I don’t even know where to start.  One thing I’ll never get used to is how freakin cool just RIDING in a helicopter is. Much less getting out of it to shred thousands of verticle in untracked, bottomless pow! My imagination runs wild like I am a special agent on a top secret mission to rip… I can’t stop giggling from the moment I hear them coming in the morning until I pass out at night. Even my dreams are awesome here.

Where Should we go next?

1,000,000 acres of territory. That means Vail’s “huge” footprint is one half of one percent of the terrain we have access to here. Our first day was especially lucky, being blessed with bluebird conditions. These “brochure cover” days are few and far between and allowed us to ride high-alpine peaks with perfect visibility. The Heli can perch on a ridge the size of your couch, and drop you on top of the most breathtaking views.

Trusty sidekick.

Today, around mid-morning the blue skies began to cloud up and visiblity got a little flat. I had no idea how great the alternative to the high-alpine would be. The tree skiing here is just as good. Steep steep pitches, deep snow, and hundreds of mushrooms, rocks, and ledges to jump off.

Our Austrian guides are a trip, and mimicing their accents provides a lot of fun in the heli. Yesterday after watching me and a buddy roll into a blind 15-20 footer, our guide skied up lauging and said…(best if said in your best Schwatzenager/Deter voice) “Ooohhh ve finds a leetle supriizze down here, don’t vee? He he.” 

Have you seen that SNL skit where they keep asking, “Do you like luxury?”  I’ve been saying that a lot too. This whole operation is top-notch. I had curry shimp and the best soup I have ever tasted on a galcier yesterday. I know, I know, I’m the luckiest jerk ever.

Bye for now. I think I have to go have some beef wellington, soak in the hot-tub and drink a few “Piley’s”

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