Skiing Eye Candy For Hot Summer Days

Yes, It’s An Ad, But—Wow—Some Awesome Videography.

Okay, okay, this is a video ad for CMH Heli Skiing, but it’ll do for a bit of a visual fix for these mid summer days. (BTW, we weren’t paid to show you this.)

Back in the early 70s, we wrote some captions for high-quality pictures sent into SKIING magazine by Hans Gmoser, the pioneer of heli-skiing in the Canadian Rockies. We remember those black and white pictures were almost abstracts with spare shapes and ski trails traced on white snow fields. Heli-skiing was pretty simple then: Go to Banff, get on helicopter, go to back country, ski, repeat.

Now, the CMH Heli Skiing organization has morphed into a travel-adventure-year round, experience vacation with lodges and even, gulp, summer activities. Well, done, Hans.

In any case, the video clip gives you a flavor of what heli skiing is all about. And a cooling waft of air from the Canadian Rockies for these triple-H summer days.

Heli-Skiing in the Canadian Rockies: A peak skiiing experience.
Credit: CMH

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Mike is the co-publisher of SeniorsSkiing.com.His skiing career started at Song Mountain NY in his college days. He worked for SKIING magazine in the early 70s, learned to love cross-country, took a 20 year hiatus from skiing and came back to short skis and efficient boots. When Jon Weisberg suggested there should be a site for senior skiers, he joined him in developing SeniorsSkiing.com.