The Powder Skiing Blog - Articles tagged as “Steep skiing”

June 15, 2012 10:10 am

The Pure Powder Ski Film Awards

To keep your skiing and snow boarding appetite duly satisfied over the long summer months, we’ve pulled together a collection of some of our favourite ski films. Don’t drool too much over the powdery steeps, heli skiing and off piste skiing is just around the corner. So without further ado, let the awards ceremony begin… BEST PIONEER FILM-‘Blizzard… [Read more]

March 8, 2012 4:34 pm

Heli Skiing in the Monashees with CMH – out of the ordinary

What happens when you take CMH Heli Skiing’s Monashees heli ski area, which is world renowned for its steep tree skiing, and bathe it in glorious sunshine for a week?!  Answer:  you get to experience the (relatively) uncharted yet spectacular alpine heli skiing terrain above the tree line… As Rooster the maintenance guy told me when we… [Read more]

August 2, 2011 9:51 am

Exploring the excitement of the CMH Cariboos Steep Camp with Dave Gauley

This is a guest post written by Topher Donohue for CMH in January 2011 Steepness in skiing is relative.  A black diamond ski run in a resort is usually about 35 degrees.  But in the backcountry of CMH heliskiing, the snow conditions have more to do with the perception of steepness than anything else.  On… [Read more]

October 19, 2010 1:42 pm

Pure Powder Off Piste La Grave – The Independent (16th October 2010)

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]