Last year Becky won a 'Heli Assist Ski Touring Adventure' (HASTA - I made up the last 'A' but it's gotta be close because it was an adventure!) in a silent auction for CAIC (Colorado Avalanche Information Center) .
She invited me and Tucker and away we went. We left town on Friday afternoon and returned tonight, Sunday. One day of backcountry and one day in resort.
We originally had a 6:45am pick up at the hotel on Saturday morning and got a call Friday night that they would be there at 7:30 (score!) so we met our guide, Marc, in the parking lot of our hotel at 7:30 on Saturday morning and made our way to the Sun Valley Gun Club - where the heli pad is. Our first (and only) heli ride was at 9am. We spent the time in between weighing in and checking avalanche beacons,etc. Then we were off! (Tucker took video and I took no still shots on the actual heli ride but it was beautiful!) We ended up in near Goat Peak. The heli dropped us off - and we took in the views (wow!)
Then we started on our adventure..... we skinned up
and skied down
And did it again, and again and again!
We told the guide about 2k-3k vertical feet in climbing and (according to my altimeter) we did 2966 vertical feet of climbing so perfectly accomodated our request! We also had 6500 vertical feet down (I appreciate that heli lift in the morning more and more as I write this)Sunday - we skied in resort at Sun Valley resort. It was a perfect, bluebird day and we were tired from the day before so we enjoyed the (VERY steep) terrain and the views and went back to the hotel about 2:15pm to get ready for our flight home while leaving Russ and Becky to ski another day and come home tomorrow night! (lucky them!)
Here are some shots from the resort -
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