eternalX Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 WTF? link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stretch75 Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Its fer all the yuppies with nothing better to do with their money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Heli-cool. That is gonna be the new rage. Choppers coming and going like mad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Sweet jeebus...I'll strap a yuppie onto my back and haul them up the trail for $1600!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenderfour Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 JoshK's summer training regiment... Give me a call if you need help. I will take a second in a wheelbarrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashw_justin Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Imagine the kind of person that would actually be interested something actually called "Heli-Hiking." Shudder. Maybe it's time to go out and give their little heli-hike a little wilderness flavor... you know what I'm sayin'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenderfour Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 "You got a purty mouth" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 CMH has been doing this for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badvoodoo Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 I bet this is all the rage with the "eco-friendly" celebrities. Flown in to some exclusive remote wilderness to enjoy the majesty of nature from their lavish lodge suite, hike maybe 4 miles over the course of a week, then fly out again to an interview on E! about their experience roughing it in the distant wilderness to get back to nature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 heli hiking is cool. its to bushwacking what sport climbing is to alpinism. all money shot and no rotten offwidths. sorry for mix metaphors. thank you for allow sprayer to post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinkyclimber Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Forget heli-hiking. That is so yesterday. The new game for the Whistler extremoMtnDudes is heli-biking! Get airlifted to the top with your fully-suspended, knobby-tired bitchin ride, and then make the first descent. Dude, so rad. Fragile alpine meadows be damned. They've been doing it for quite a few years now in the mountains near Whistler, and probably other places too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 actually someone heli biked one of those massive scree chutes north of the thompson canyon just east of lytton a few years back. you could see the fresh track in the scree until rockfalls obliterated it. i myself have taken up heli-climbing and plan to continue it when i can afford to as a supplement to regular climbing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWolfe Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 The really nice part is you can stick you beluga and Dom in the glacier by the chopper so it's nice and chilled when you get back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinkyclimber Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 I've always dreamed about going hiking with some retired member of the Afghan mujahadeen, along with his trust Stinger missle, and knocking off the tail rotors of a few particuarly intrusive helos. Would certainly even up the odds somewhat in this land-user conflict , as well as spice up the experience for those bored, lazy heli-recreationalists! Maybe we could set up an anti-aircraft battery on the roof of Murray's store to pick off the helos going up to Lake Lovely Water? You'd see a proper bridge going over the river PDQ after that, I expect. Having said all that, I am not against all heli-access, but only in appropriate areas (i.e. remote, difficult to access, and not heavily used by parties who walk in) Flying into those areas that you can reach by a 3 hour hike, like Lovely Water, or Garibaldi Park, or indeed most of the southern Coast Mountains, seem a little disrespectful of the experiences of others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 i'm planning to fly into the chehalis with an 82 year old man later this summer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinkyclimber Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 I'll start checking e-Bay for Stinger missles (new or used) Or probably easier, pay a waitress from Hooters to parade around the heli pad before Fred climbs aboard. That'll end the trip real fast! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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