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Great Canadian Heli Skiing gives a plug!

Posted By: admin-christatsuno on February 12, 2010 in All New Posts - Comments: No Comments »

The following is an excerpt from the Great Canadian Heli Skiing newsletter they send out to all their clients. I will be posting a review on their operation at the Powder Highway blog site linked to below.

The Ultimate Ski Bum

No doubt many of you would have heard of the Ultimate Ski Bum contest. It was a competition organised by Kootenay Tourism (our regional tourism association) that promotes the “Powder Highway ” a joint marketing venture between ski resorts, cat-skiing and heliskiing operations in the area.

The person who made the best “Why I’m the Ultimate Ski Bum” video was the extremely lucky recipient of free skiing all winter long with unlimited resort skiing at places like Kicking Horse, Revelstoke, Red Mountain, Fernie, etc and the coolest part: 1 free day of heliskiing at all the different cat and heliskiing operations in the region.

A 2nd generation Aspen/Sun Valley ski bum, Chris ‘Tats’ Tatsuno won the competition with this video: powderhighway.com/SkiBum

Tats visited us last week for a day and had a blast! In fact, he racked up 14 powder filled runs! Maybe he should of visited us last as we may have spoiled him!!

Is this really for real?

Posted By: admin-christatsuno on February 8, 2010 in All New Posts, TatsVan Chronicles - Comments: No Comments »

The last seven days of my life have been unlike any other in my whole skiing experience. I am just so thankful for all the good luck that’s come my way. The Powder Highway has been such an amazing place to spend a winter season.

The last week, in summary:

Monday – Skied park at Panorama , BC

Tuesday – Skied some more park at Panorama, BC

Wednesday – Skied pow with RK Heli Ski , Panorama, BC

Thursday – Travel day/visited Radium Hot Springs , BC

Friday – Skied 14 runs of pow with Great Canadian Heli Skiing

Saturday – Skied Day 1 of Wrangle the Chute freeski competition at Kicking Horse, BC

Sunday – Finished 5th overall by Day 2 of Wrangle the Chute

Needless to say, I’ve been spoiled with some amazing days of pow skiing, got my jumping feet under me at the terrain park in Panorama, and joined the Canadian freeskiing revolution by skiing big mountain lines down to a step-up park jump and ditching my skis to ride a bucking bronco. By the end of it all, it was the bucking bronco that ended up taking me out with a pulled groin. haha