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Traveler's Guide to Valdez, AlaskaSkiing & Backcountry Adventures |
| The Valdez Heli Ski Experience:My breathing is irregular. My heart beats in a rapid staccato. My vision blurs as my goggles fog over, and I have not even stepped out of the helicopter. ... and I wonder why I have allowed my hobby to take me to this dangerous place.
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- Alaska Backcountry Adventures
- The people of ALASKA BACKCOUNTRY ADVENTURES were the first to realize the incredible skiing potential of the Chugach Mountains in the Thompson Pass area near Valdez, Alaska and to make that skiing available to everyone at a reasonable price. Heli-Skiing/Snow-boarding
E-Mail: bcountry@ptialaska.net Phone: (907) 283-9354 or 1-888-283-9354 (out of state), or (907) 835-5608 - Thompson Pass Mountain Chalet LLC
- Thompson Pass Mountain Chalet is a private and secluded log B&B located 20 miles North of Valdez at the base of Thompson Pass. Full service lodging is available for small groups of 4 or less. Bird-watchers and naturalist will enjoy the experience. Skiers and iceclimbers will love the proximity to Keystone Canyon and Thompson Pass.
Phone: (907) 835-4817 or E-Mail: chalet@alaska.net - Valdez Heli-Camps
- You've read about it. You've DREAMED it. Now you can live it. Alaska has no parallel and above the 60th Parallel the powder is without limit or measure. Valdez, Alaska home of the World Extreme Skiing and King/Queen of the Hill Snowboarding Championship has gained a reputation for its breathtaking vistas and hair raising descents. Now you too can access this new frontier in skiing. VALDEZ HELI-CAMPS INC. will take you on a trip through this unique terrain and show you what it is to ski and snowboard the last frontier.
Email: heliski@alaska.net Phone: (907) 783-3243 - World Extreme Skiing Championships
- The world's best extreme skiers will gather once again in Valdez, Alaska, for the World Extreme Skiing Championships (WESC). This annual event is held in the spectacular Chugach Mountain Range that encircles the Alaskan port of Valdez. Competitors are judged by a celebrity judging panel in much the same manner as figure skaters or gymnasts are judged. Catagories for degree of difficulty, style, execution and grace are utilized, in addition to the novel extreme skiing quantification of boldness and control.
- Alaska Rendezvous Lodge
- (ARL) invites you to explore the spirit of the "great land" in the Chugach Range of Alaska. Chugach is defined by native culture as "the mountains of the people". Let our experienced heli-ski guides lead you beyond your personal horizons to "the mountains of the people"
info@ARLinc.com Phone: 1-888-634-0721 - Valdez Heli-Ski Guides
- P.O. Box 25029, Jackson, WY 83001 - Phone: (707) 541-2134
- Valdez H20 Heli-Adventures - Ski with Dean Cummings - 1-800-578-HELI (4354)
