After a much needed day off we were ready to ski again. When we awoke there was snow in the valley which meant there was fresh snow at altitude. However at 6 am it was still snowing and clouds were rolling over the lower valley mountain tops. Flying helicopters in cloud covered mountains with no radar is never a good idea so we had to wait. The sun did it’s job and burned off the clouds and blue skies appeared. The snow was fresh, heavy and had not consolidated or bonded at higher elevations increasing the risk of avalanche. We went to our daily briefing at breakfast and was told they were going to keep an eye on the weather and try to get us up as soon as they could. We got the call at 9 am we would be flying at 10:20 am so we donned our gear and headed to the heli-pad with excitement about the fresh powder. Because of the increased risk of avalanche we stuck to lower elevations, got a couple hours of skiing and Mark got his wish of skiing in the glades – on a day we didn’t even think we would be able to go up.
