Mica Heli Guides

For the first time in history, Field Productions travels to British Columbia, Canada to shoot.

Published by: Field Productions
Written by: Filip Christensen

(11.06.2009 16:21) Tell a friend

 

Crew: Filip Christensen, Endre Løvaas, Eirik Finseth, Åsmund Thorsen, Eric Hjorleifson and Chris Rubens.

After many months with waiting and big expectations, we finally got the chance to travel to Mica Heli Guides in British Columbia.
Mica Heli Guides is considered being the best place to ski powder in the world, with endless terrain for high alpine and tree skiing.

We arrived at Kelowna airport the 27th of December. At first we had a nice day of shredding in Revelstoke Mountain Resort, which is two hours from Kelowna. The day after we drove two more hours towards the Revelstoke mountain range for the Mica Heli pickup spot.

We all got more and more psyched on the fact that we were getting closer to the deep dry powder. During the heli transportation we noticed a gigantic luxury lodge, placed on a surreal and beautiful location in the middle of nowhere. It is by far the most scenic location to place a lodge, and yes, it was the Mica Heli lodge. Things were just getting better and better when we heard about the snow conditions as soon as we arrived the lodge. Fresh snow, or “blower pow”, as we call it, was on the program for the next days. After 3 courses of amazing food by Nicole (the chef), it was time to charge our batteries, and get as much rest as possible for the following day.

It was time to get out in the wilderness. After an informative avalanche lesson and beacon testing we were ready for action. We scoped the terrain from the heli, and Ash (the pilot) dropped us of on a ridge in between the trees. The snow depth was even deeper that I could ever imagine. Perfect pillow lines and endless terrain surrounded us. It was time to work our way down.

First up was the famous terrain named "Pillow Talk". The boys slayed the whole area with speedy pillow lines, and faceshots all the way. Every single person in the group were screaming out loud in excitement. The snow quality was unreal. It felt like surfing on a endless wave. Eric was charging through the trees with his VIO POV helmetcamera, and the shots turned out great.

The journey continued the next days. Even more pillows lines and deeper snow.
Mica Heli Guides is a dangerous addiction. Once you´ve been there, you have to go back. No matter what.

I will let the moving images tell the rest of this story in our 2009 movie release, "Eyes Wide Open".

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