TR: It's gone bluebird, call in the whirrly bird.

[shirk]

Hot damn the skys turned blue and the planets aligned with some fresh snow on a bomber snowpack. What else were Van_skier and I to do but cash in the heli day. I was lucky enough to win one day for two people with Whistler Heli-Skiing back in December. We've been waiting for the right day to book our fly time. In January we had a nice high pressure but no fresh snow, other days have looked good but at the last minute the forecast would change. Some days the forecast looked like crap but turned out bluebird. After reading postmans thread of some fresh snow in Cerise Creek and sunny skys forecast today I pulled the trigger yesterday after work.

Just as forecast the morning was clear. We watched a great sunrise on the Sea to Sky on our drive up from North Van to Whistler this morning. After signing some waivers we wondered over to Moguls to see bigtrubs and grab a coffee. When we got back to the Whistler Heli-Skiing office the gappers had started to arrive.


I kept saying "Please don't put us in a ship with gappers. Please don't put us in a ship with gappers."

First drop was going to be a jump run to get us outta the hanger and onto a near by run. Guides picked Rainbow. There was going to be three groups flying out of our Bell 405. We were 3rd to launch, so we had some waiting around time. Learned a few good things. Our flying partners were another young couple from Whistler and some guy that had been doing a couple days recently. So we didn't get any gappers. Turned out the first group to launch was Montel Williams and some buddy of his.


Hey look it's powder11's place


Top of Rainbow with our group.


Van_skier first run of the day.


Conditions were cold low density boot top pow on a firm base.


Yeah for new heli friend not being a gapper.


Dude even took time to read the skier666 tutorial on photoslutting.


Yeah they get you really close to some gnar terrain. Van_skier asking the guide for some gnar gnar.


It ain't gnar on Petterson, but it sure is pretty.


Yep pretty stoked our heli mates were not gappers. Petterson was so nice we hit it for two runs.


Van_skier works a little spine.


Apres some lunch it's back in the bird. This sure beats touring.


Our great guide Steve even asked us what we wanted to ski after lunch. The group voted in unison for steep. So Steve set us up on Tsunami.


Who said it was all going to be lame meadow skipping?


Tsunami was not super long, but it was super fun. Oh and there was zero powder farming. Our one group of 5 plus guide pretty much destroyed Tsunami, about 5 minutes before another group set down on it.



Yep still happy that our new heli friends were not gappers.


Van_skier "I wonder if we can get the heli to drop us on the north face of Waddington?"



Hey this isn't Waddington. But it's cold and powdery.


It's not a bad day when the guide stands at the top lets us have our way with the terrain. It's also not bad watching two cute girls rip up some pow.


I can almost see the grin on Van_skiers face.


Did I mention what I was pretty stoked our fellow ship mates were not gappers. Kat ripping one last final turn of the last run.


Luke taking to the air.


This thing beats skins hands down.

Yeah today did not suck. The package I won was for 6 runs and we plunked down the 95 dead loonies of our own for a 7th run. Weather was perfect, guide was cool, and our ship mates ripped. we couldn't have asked for a better day. Tomorrow back at work now that is going to suck.

[hop]

Yeah, I hate you you lucky bastard!

[filthyfrenchbum]

that looks quite fucking beautiful!

Good timing, and nice pictures.

[bigtrubs]

Ahem. I hope your easter cream latte heartattackinacup was good there brian. I bet it's the thing that kept you skiing hard all day, without it, without my immense espresso pouring skills and milk steaming ability, your day would have sucked like mine did. Hrrrrmph.

[Xover]

nice TR B!!! best 'round these parts in a long time.

(now fork the dough for AK and jizz in your pants)

[Squatch]

radness bump

[shirk]

nice TR B!!! best 'round these parts in a long time.

(now fork the dough for AK and jizz in your pants)

Who needs AK when we have tons of mini AK a short tour out the gates.

[Squirrel99]

now THAT is purdy!

so BC-Flow wins free trip to Red, Greydon free skis & heli day, and now you go off on your free heli day!! I want my free heli day!!!

[Tectonically_Neglected]

That was SUH-WEET!

[curtisvill]

Sweet pics!

[BushwackerinPA]

I want free heliskiing too!!!

[Crinkle]

well fucking done!!! way to slay the free day.

[lemon boy]

pure, refined, double distilled awesome

[tromano]

I wanna do that.

[pechelman]

dude, I bet you were pretty stoked your fellow ship mates were not gappers.

that looks incredibly fun

[girlski0912]

now THAT is purdy!

so BC-Flow wins free trip to Red, Greydon free skis & heli day, and now you go off on your free heli day!! I want my free heli day!!!

And I haven't even posted the TR of my free heli WEEK.....

What a gorgeous day! I am stoked that you guys finally got your heli time in. There were some beauty shots in there.

[LeeLau]

Who needs AK when we have tons of mini AK a short tour out the gates.

looks great - maya's looking styling in the new jacket. Mt Davidson? Where is Tsunami. Any chance of sketching the lines out on a map

[PNWbrit]

Nice work Shirk.

But I was sort of hoping it was going to turn into the "I went Heli skiing with Montel Williams TR".

[freshie247]

Beautimous! I was wondering what the deal was with that operation,thanks for the glimpse.

[Steven S. Dallas]

But I was sort of hoping it was going to turn into the "I went Heli skiing with Montel Williams TR".

Seriously. I mean, sweet TR and all, I totally want to be you and everything, but...

The title of Montel Williams' autobiography is Mountain, Get Out Of My Way. If I had been on that trip, I would have pointed out the irony of that title, given his love of snowboarding, and then he would have invited me to be his Dr. Phil.

This is why I should win a heli-skiing trip.

[HotCarl]

I hate you,even though i just went heli-skiin in AK a couple weeks ago. At least yours was free. Sooo are you addicted like the rest of us now?

[Van_skier]

Sooo are you addicted like the rest of us now?

Today doesn't feel right sitting at my desk...

I asked Shirk this morning if we could go heli-skiing again today. He said we could, but that he would have to go rob a bank first. So I'm at work right now .
I will be purchasing a lottery ticket this afternoon though: I felt that even though the odds aren't too good, my plan to enable us to go heli-skiing again doesn't involve potential jail time or death like Shirk's plan...

[HotCarl]

Yeah,it takes a few days to decompress from somethin like that. When i got back to the hotel room,after my first day in the bird,my girl was tellin me how zoned out i looked. I had that far off stare,i was still on a high. Its tits

[powder11]

Hey look it's powder11's place

kristina will be happy to know that nobody in the helicoptors flying above can see her naked in the hot tub. way to hold out for the perfect day, except now you have a problem... everything else sucks

[Mofro261]

Heli-acious!!!

ppowder pperfection, ppleased the gapper developpment was pprevented.