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  1. 02-09-2017, 07:50 PM #1
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    North Cascade Heli

    Damn who knew the skiing in Washington State could be so good. Last week we ventured over to Mazama, Washington for some pow turns via North Cascade Heli Skiing. I was blown away by the scenery and rugged topography that this part of the Cascades holds. They actually call this the Alps of North America.

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    Our crew consisted of snowboarder Jeff Yates, Skiers Tommy Frey, Dan Rihm, John Richards and Bob Legasa and some sweet video work by Justin Miller.

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    Day One was greybird and a little wind effect so we won't even talk about it, but that night the storm blew in early and started dumping late afternoon. By the second morning we woke to temps in the single digits, clear skies and 8" of Cascade Cold Smoke.

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    Game on for day 2 as we made our first runs down Silverstar which had about a 3000 ft vertical drop and was surrounded by incredibly Granite Spires and walls. Throughout the day we chased the sun and kept hitting Money!

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    Near the end of the day we ventured into a basin which had three huge prominent rock walls. Our guides told us a few years back Eric Roner base jumped off of these spires for a TGR film. I would have loved to witness that.

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    This day was certainly money in the bank and we celebrated with a few Jaeger shots, good local beers and some damn good burgers over at the nearby Freestone Inn.

    We were primed and ready for Day 3 when it was Bluebird once again but unfortunately there was some wind effect over night creating some less than stellar conditions at first but after a little hunting and pecking different aspects and basins we found the goods once again.

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    North Cascade Heli skiing offers all sorts of packages from Day skiing to multi day and their Guides, top notch! Check em out.

    The proof is in the pudding, here's the video! Enjoy.

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  2. 02-09-2017, 08:35 PM #2
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    Awesome.
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    You missed the memo, NCH is worse than Satan
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    Mofro261 and Kopi_Red, Thanks, it was a good couple of days.
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    snoqpass-Your Point???

    Quote Originally Posted by snoqpass View Post
    You missed the memo, NCH is worse than Satan
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  7. 02-10-2017, 07:01 AM #7
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    killer vid! nice to see a boarder!
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    That TAY thread reminded me why I moved over to TGR...
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    Quote Originally Posted by LeSausage View Post
    snoqpass-Your Point???
    There are people actively trying to restrict and or have NCH cease operating in the North Cascades
    “I have a responsibility to not be intimidated and bullied by low life losers who abuse what little power is granted to them as ski patrollers.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by snoqpass View Post
    There are people actively trying to restrict and or have NCH cease operating in the North Cascades
    You know what I say about that? Fuck em

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    Quote Originally Posted by NW_SKIER View Post
    You know what I say about that? Fuck em
    Word.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PNWbrit View Post
    Word.

    NCH are good people.
    Exactly. And when someone says "people" they really mean one guy who has a stink with NCH.

    Anyway, nice pics, jong.
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    Just saw that the damn TAY thread finally got locked. Hopefully Freeski got shitcanned too. The same damn rant interjected by him into every thread over there was getting old.
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    Quote Originally Posted by John_B View Post
    Just saw that the damn TAY thread finally got locked. Hopefully Freeski got shitcanned too. The same damn rant interjected by him into every thread over there was getting old.
    Yeah, any valley people know him? Is he as big of a pedantic toolbag in person?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mofro261 View Post
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    Exactly! Great vid.
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    Forgot to mention this but sweet TR. Thanks for the photos!
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    NW-SKIER-My sentiments exactly! Thanks for the stoke.
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    You know what I say about that? Fuck em

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    Thanks, pretty easy to get good shots with that kind of background.
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    Forgot to mention this but sweet TR. Thanks for the photos!
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    Can you repost the video? It is unavailable. Thx!
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    Great pics Thanks for sharing
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    skinipenem, her ya go. enjoy.

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    "This video is either not available or awaiting final processing. "

    Weird. I found it by searching vimeo. Strange the link wouldn't work though.

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    sick! was that backie at 2:05 landed? inquiring minds need to know
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