Regardless of which hemisphere you reside in, there is nothing quite like a trip to New Zealand to get your skiing fix from July – October. My fix came on July 14th after a fewdays of waiting for the weather to cooperate.
I was picked up in the morning at my hotel and brought to a heli pad near the town of Glenorchy.
This is not an area that is skied on a very regular basis, but it was where the best snow for the day was. Alpine Heli-Ski has a wide variety of terrain, which enables them to tailor each day’s terrain to what Mother Nature dishes out. In only their second year of business, Alpine has been able to secure an impressive amount of terrain through both traditional and creative routes. Sometimes this means securing land rights from farmers through a barter system including heli time, whiskey, beer, wine, and rides to rugby games.
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