Eagle Pass Heliskiing, B.C.(Traveler; Where Now)(Hotel review)

Ski | October 1, 2007| | Copyright

Byline: Christopher Solomon

A new Revelstoke heliski outfit serves up virgin slopes in a 600-square-mile domain.

The chopper thumps up Victor Creek and lands on a ridge somewhere above Revelstoke, British Columbia. Eagle Pass Heliskiing guide Norm Winter exits into the Crayola-blue Monashee morning. Winter--who has the sky-matching blue eyes that all mountain guides seem to share, deep-set in a face that's all angles--skis down to timberline, then stops to dig a snowpit and gauge avalanche conditions. Satisfied, he clicks into his bindings.

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