Heli-Skiing is often wrongly perceived as extreme skiing and boarding only suitable for expert skiers and riders.
Alpine Heli-Ski Ltd have terrain to suit a wide range of abilities from gentle rolling powder bowls to challenging steep
chutes. If you can ski or /ride blue runs on your local ski area then you can Heli-Ski.

The scale below will help you to identify what level of skier/boarder you are, and will help us to deliver an optimal day
for you by allowing us to match your ability with the right terrain, conditions and heli-package. We call this ‘Powder
Personalised’ and its our way of minimising risk and maximising satisfaction on your Heli-Day.


Heli 1	Heli 2

Intermediate Skier/Rider You ski/ride the blue runs, only sometimes go off piste, have little or no powder experience and ski up to 10 days per season.	Intermediate to Advanced Skier/Rider You ski/ride the blue runs and some easier black runs, sometimes go off piste in good conditions, have some powder experience and ski 10-20 days per season.

Heli 3	Heli 4

Advanced Skier/Rider You mainly ski/ride black runs, go off piste most of the time, have many days of powder experience and ski/ride over 20 days per season.	Expert Skier/Rider You always ski/ride black and double black runs, you almost only ever ski/ride off piste, you are an accomplished powder and all snow condition skier/rider. You ski/ride 40 days plus per season.

Equipment

Skis
Wide skis or powder skis are essential items for Heli-Skiing. All our guides are expert skiers and we all use powder skis.
Powder skis allow you to ski a wide range of snow conditions, faster, easier and with more stability. This means more
fun in the powder. You don’t have to own your own powder skis, talk to us and we can happily recommend a variety of
hire equipment retailers - See Below.

Snowboards
Snowboards have a wide base which allows them to perform very well in off piste conditions and deep powder snow.
We recommend you use a snowboard 5-10cm longer than you normally use for resort boarding, 160-175 are common
lengths ideal for heli-boarding. We recommend you adjust your bindings to a freeride stance approximately 12 rear 22
front. As with powder ski’s, you don’t have to own your own board to heli-ride, we can happily recommend a variety of
hire equipment retailers.

Hire

In order to simplify your heli-day, at Alpine Heli Ski Ltd we can pickup and return your hire equipment from your chosen
rental store free of charge. If due to weather conditions we cant Heli-Ski/Board, most rental stores will not charge you
for the rental and in most cases will gladly roll-over your equipment reservation to the next day should you wish. Alpine
Heli-Ski Ltd recommend Outside Sports for all rental equipment.

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Heli 3

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Equipment

Hire