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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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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02-09-2017, 07:50 PM #1
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North Cascade Heli
It's not your line until your looking back up at it!
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02-09-2017, 08:35 PM #2
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Awesome.
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02-09-2017, 08:38 PM #3
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You missed the memo, NCH is worse than Satan
http://www.turns-all-year.com/skiing...?topic=37630.0“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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02-09-2017, 08:51 PM #4
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chop notch.
Move upside and let the man go through...
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02-09-2017, 11:01 PM #5
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Mofro261 and Kopi_Red, Thanks, it was a good couple of days.
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02-09-2017, 11:04 PM #6
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snoqpass-Your Point???
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It's not your line until your looking back up at it!
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02-10-2017, 07:01 AM #7
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killer vid! nice to see a boarder!
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02-10-2017, 08:24 AM #8
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02-10-2017, 11:36 AM #9
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That TAY thread reminded me why I moved over to TGR...
Thanks for sharing sausage!The Hardest Workin' Man in Snow-Business
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02-10-2017, 11:39 AM #10
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There are people actively trying to restrict and or have NCH cease operating in the North Cascades Originally Posted by LeSausage
“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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02-10-2017, 11:47 AM #11
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You know what I say about that? Fuck em Originally Posted by snoqpass
Killer trip sausage. Thanks for sharing.
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02-10-2017, 12:09 PM #12
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Word. Originally Posted by NW_SKIER
NCH are good people. Originally Posted by Downbound Train
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02-10-2017, 12:31 PM #13
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Exactly. And when someone says "people" they really mean one guy who has a stink with NCH. Originally Posted by PNWbrit
Anyway, nice pics, jong.Well maybe I'm the faggot America
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02-10-2017, 12:57 PM #14
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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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Yeah, any valley people know him? Is he as big of a pedantic toolbag in person? Originally Posted by John_B
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02-10-2017, 04:07 PM #16
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Exactly! Great vid. Originally Posted by Mofro261
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02-10-2017, 04:14 PM #17
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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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02-10-2017, 06:14 PM #19
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Thanks, pretty easy to get good shots with that kind of background.
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02-10-2017, 08:49 PM #20
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Can you repost the video? It is unavailable. Thx!
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02-11-2017, 12:09 AM #21
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Great pics Thanks for sharing
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02-11-2017, 01:55 AM #22
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Brilliant. Amazeballs all round
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skinipenem, her ya go. enjoy.
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02-11-2017, 09:54 AM #24
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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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02-12-2017, 07:22 PM #25
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sick! was that backie at 2:05 landed? inquiring minds need to know
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