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 Photo courtesy of Northern Escape |
TERRACE, BC – The Wrigley’s Doublemint Gum folks had it right: double your pleasure, double your fun. Terrace, British Columbia’s Northern Escape Heli-Skiing (NEH) has taken this motto to heart. Rather than just running a heli-ski operation, NEH has doubled our pleasure by offering cat skiing adventures as well.
Terrace is located in northern BC – about a two hour flight north of Vancouver – and if you’ve never been to there during the winter, then you have yet to experience the true definition of ski and snowboarding nirvana.
“Terrace has the deepest, most reliable snowfall on the planet, and inevitably it can’t come out of blue bird skies,” explains NEH’s GM John Forrest.
A down day is possible with any heli-skiing adventure; that’s the cost of doing business. Sometimes the snow blows so hard that the blue birds can’t fly fast enough. At NEH, your days of standing idly by while watching the snow fall are over; instead, you’ll be taking in that view en route to your next run via their cat ski operation coming next season.
“Since the company started seven years ago, we started the planning and researching into this offering. The whole idea is to guarantee powder skiing every day, and if you can’t have that experience from skiing in the chopper, then let’s get you out via the cat,” said Forrest.
The tenure set aside for this new offering is impressive. Over 6,000 skiable acres – the equivalent to about two-thirds the size of Whistler/Blackcomb – will be waiting to be devoured. Two cats will carry a maximum of 24 people. The area includes everything from glade skiing within old growth forest to some of their most extreme terrain that has played host to some of the biggest names in snow sport films.
“A lot of the Standard Films movies as well as Matchstick Production’s Seven Sunny Days was filmed in this area,” explains Forrest.
 Photo courtesy of Northern Escape |
Fans of skiing or snowboarding in the trees will be stoked. About two-thirds of the terrain is steep glades. Having been up to Northern Escape a number of times, I couldn’t think of anything better. The tree skiing in the Skeena Mountain Range (home to NEH) is like nothing I have ever experienced: endless powder paired with overgrown trees filled with character mosses and unique features is the setting for this powder filled playground.
“To my knowledge, we will be the first company in North America offering a full sized heli and cat skiing area. We will have the equivalent of a full-blown cat skiing operation just waiting there for our guests to get into. The terrain has always been there, so now we are taking full advantage of it. In the past, when we looked at days where it was puking snow, it was tough, as we couldn’t fly. However, they are the best days to be skiing. Now, with the snow cat, we will be there,” said Forrest.
Double your pleasure, double your fun. Pack the snorkel gear and make it all systems go for Terrace this season. Just don’t forget the gum; you’ll need it to break up the perma-grin!
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Total snowfall so
far this season:
10046 cm