The Powder Skiing Blog - In The News

      Tommy Moe, the 1994 Olympic downhill champion, is skiing fluently on steep terrain on a descent called Bermuda Triangle in the Alaskan wilderness. Yet he’s on one ski, and clutching a broken pole. And it’s all my fault. I’m the one who broke a pole, and lost a ski. As a “guest”… [Read more]

      Canada — particularly British Columbia, but Alberta too — is the undisputed heli-skiing capital of the world. BC alone conducts about 90 per cent of all heli-skiing in the world. If you put it prosaically, using a helicopter to transport skiers to vast steep slopes (it could be thousands of square miles)… [Read more]

Romance on the slopes in Klosters Ski journalist Gabriela Le Breton, samples a Pure Powder off piste trip to Klosters. She features us in her ‘Single for the season’ column in The Telegraph online… I’m here to trial one of the first guided off-piste trips offered by Heli-skiing specialist Pure Powder. Klosters is widely recognised… [Read more]

Ever Dreamt of Heli-Skiing? Considered by most to be the Holy Grail of skiing experiences, we touched base with Charlie Brooksbank, Director of Pure Powder, the UK’s leading heli-ski specialists, to get his insider views on tow world famous heli-skiing destinations…  

Charlie Brooksbank (Pure Powder Director), was interviewed by Lisa Gautier from BBC Radio Jersey. Charlie provdided an insight into heli skiing with CMH in British Columbia and Pure Powder’s forthcoming promotional evening in Jersey. Pure Powder BBC Radio Interview

Two feet in La Grave For the best off-piste skiing in France, go one step beyond the black run – and don’t forget to rope up. It’s one way to get the attention of your group: to announce on the first morning that the couloir into which you are about to ski has killed several… [Read more]

Inside Track – Pure Powder As the snow turns to slush in the Alps and the runs are cluttered with Easter holiday crowds, ski fantatics should start looking further afield for their off-piste kicks.  Cue freshly re-launched heli-ski specialists Pure Powder…

  Heli-Skiing: five great locations The Monashees, British Columbia:  the most challenging of the ski areas in the Canadian Mountain Holidays (CMH) portfolio, the Monashees are not for the first-time heli-skier. Offering what is arguably the best “steep and deep” tree skiing in the world, two-thirds of the runs are set in mature, well-spaced forest…READ… [Read more]

  Best for powder hounds: British Columbia  “There’s a vertical inconvenience ahead so we’re going that way,” says Allan the guide, pointing with his pole. “Do not go below me. Any questions?” In other words (mountain guides are masters of understatement): “There’s a cliff down there so follow me or you’re screwed.” And with that… [Read more]

A first time heli-skier in Canada – watch the video whoops and wipeouts of ski fanatic Charlie Light on his heli-ski debut. Imagine two miles of untouched powder ahead of you, a personal heli-taxi to take you back up the mountain and a cosy lodge with an open fire at the end of the day…. [Read more]