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.
Credit: CMH
