Valdez Adventure Ski Week


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Valdez Heli Touring Ski Week

Can you imagine a better way to experience Alaska’s Chugach range? Neither can we. Our ski week will fulfill your Alaska skiing dreams. Through a combination of ski touring and helicopter assisted ski touring we’ll cover a lot of ground in seven days. This is a low ratio, low impact, cost effective ski week that will leave you with a lifetime of memories and ski runs that only dreams are made of. Valdez is the epicenter of Alaska ski touring.

Trip Itinerary | Prerequisites | Additional Information

ALASKA Ski Mountaineering trip May 2012!
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TRIP ITINERARY: Valdez Adventure Ski Week
DAY 0	Welcomed by your guide(s) at the Valdez airport. We will do equipment checks and go by van to the lodge. Immediately following a safety meeting we can get out the maps for a Chugach overview. We’ll be dining and spending the night at the lodge.
DAY 1	Thompson pass tour day. On our first day we’ll get our ski legs on a tour from the pass. We’ll refresh our group safety, glacier travel, touring techniques, and get a feel for the snow conditions.
DAY 2	Helicopter bump day. We will get a heli bump to the top of a peak and spend the rest of the day touring back to the lodge.
DAY 3	We will tour off of the pass and return to the lodge .
DAY 4	We will tour off of the pass and return to the lodge .
DAY 5	Helicopter bump day. We will get a heli bump to the top of a peak and spend the rest of the day touring back to the lodge.
DAY 6	We will tour off of the pass and return to the lodge .
DAY 7	Pack everything up and head to the Valdez airport where your guide(s) will see you off.
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Prerequisites:

Advanced-expert downhill skiing skills
Ability to control speed and execute fall-line turns in control and comfort in difficult snow conditions (deep powder, heavy and/or moist snow, breakable crust, firm or icy, etc.)
Ability to execute hop turns on 40 degree+, firm slopes, coming to a complete and immediate stop at the finish of each turn
Ability to sideslip forward and backward, with edge control, on steep, firm slopes
Experience ski touring in the backcountry using ski touring equipment (boots, bindings, skins, transceiver, shovel, probe, etc.
Ability to make uphill facing kick-turns in an uphill track on a slope
Very good fitness

Additional Information

Price includes:

Guides
Pick up and drop off from Valdez airport
Daily Transport
Six days of guided skiing in Alaska’s amazing Chugach range

Price excludes:

Flight to and from Valdez
Lodging
Food
Heli bumps are not included since we do not know for sure how many we will be able to do due to weather. Plan on about approx. $250 per bump, but it depends on the number in the group. Weather permitting, we will do two bumps. We may do more only with the unanimous agreement of the group.

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TRIP DETAILS

2012 Dates:

April 29-5

Trip Length:
6 days

Ratio:

3:1

Cost:

$1975

Trip Difficulty:
Level 2.5

Recommended Prior SMG Programs:
Yosemite High Route

Sierra Day Tours

June Mountain Off-Piste

Recommended Follow-up SMG Programs:
Palisades Crest Tour

Eastside Classics

Ortler Circuit

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