Supportive environment
If you’re a strong intermediate to advanced resort skier or snowboarder who has dreamed of heli-skiing but has never experienced true backcountry conditions, welcome to Powder Intro! You’ll hit low-stress terrain where you can get a feel for the conditions and take your skiing or snowboarding skills to the next level at a relaxed to moderate pace.
Beat all your best days (ever!) at any resort. Cruise through open alpine terrain mixed with spaced trees and traverses — no crazy steeps or too-tricky trees, but enough terrain variation to challenge yourself in a learning environment. Get a feel for out-of-bounds skiing in a supportive group and in friendly terrain, without taming the ecstatic feeling of heli-skiing. It’s the perfect introduction.
Group Size
Customized groups of up to
10 guests + 2 guides
On a typical Powder Intro Trip at CMH, you’ll get to ski or ride in personalized groups of just 10 guests, plus 2 guides. Having 2 guides creates a supportive learning environment.
Helicopter
Daily flights in a
Bell 212
Our Powder Intro trips use the powerful Bell 212 — the classic machine that heli-skiing was built on.
Skiable Terrain
CMH has exclusive access to:
3,000,000 acres
CMH's total terrain is bigger than all North American ski areas put together. That’s not a typo. Our exclusive three-million-acre territory is 20x larger than all the combined chairlift skiing on the continent. Woah. It would likely take several years to ski all our runs more than once — but we’re happy to help you try. Just throwin’ the challenge out there.
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Average vertical
On an average 7-day trip, expect to ski & ride up to:
30,500m / 100,000 ft
On a 7-day CMH Powder Intro Trip, you'll log around 70,000 - 100,000 vertical feet of skiing and riding, which is a few dozen heli rides worth of “Yewwwwww!” (This amount will vary based on trip length, run length, group dynamics, weather, etc.) Fun fact: to log the same amount of vertical at a resort, you’d have to spend 6-7 hours in a lift line and take double the number of chairlift rides. Heli, please.
