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For booking please e-mail info@cmhinc.com or call 1-800-661-0252. Canadian Mountain Holidays Phone: (403) 762-7100 
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For booking please e-mail info@cmhinc.com or call 1-800-661-0252. Canadian Mountain Holidays Phone: (403) 762-7100
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  Skiers arrive in Calgary on the day before their trip and overnight at the Delta Calgary Airport Hotel, handily located within the airport complex (our reservations staff will be happy to make this booking and arrange our special rate for you). CMH representatives will meet you in the hotel lobby to assist you with the advance check-in service and provide you with a room key. Bus departure times are posted in the Delta Calgary’s lobby and listed in the Travel Advice brochure, which is mailed to confirmed guests. Buses depart promptly. If you miss the bus, transportation to the Heli-Ski area will be at your own expense. Our comfortable charter buses depart from the hotel on the morning of your trip. It takes between four and seven (weather permitting, tremendously scenic) hours to reach the different areas. You’ll arrive at the lodge by early afternoon and be greeted by our staff, who will show you around the lodge and to your room. Once everyone is settled in, we’ll have a safety and lodge orientation. Your safety is our first priority (see safety for more on this). Before or after dinner, the lodge manager will introduce the staff and explain the daily routines. That first evening you’ll be asked about your experience and at what pace you want to ski. The lodge guides will then form groups based on compatible experience. In the interest of making Heli-Skiing as enjoyable as possible for all our guests, the decision about which group you’ll ski with is entirely at the discretion of the guides. Each morning before breakfast we conduct an optional, highly recommended stretching/warm-up program. Following breakfast on the first day, the groups will be instructed on the use of avalanche transceivers, which everyone must wear while skiing. The pilot will give a safety talk around the helicopter before the groups lift off for their first runs. All groups ski in the same general area, with the guide choosing terrain which best suits the group. We ski an average of eight or more runs per day. If you don’t want to ski the whole day, in most areas it’s possible on most days to start skiing later in the morning or to return to the lodge in the afternoon. We usually have a picnic lunch in the mountains (and in very inclement weather, indoors at the lodge). You should be prepared to ski in the trees for part of your trip. Some weeks will require more tree skiing than others. While skiing in the trees, we always use a buddy system in which you’ll ski and stay in constant visual contact with a partner. The groups fly home to their lodge in the late afternoon for a sauna or whirlpool, hors d’oeuvres, and much animated story-telling about the day’s runs. At trip’s end, you’ll return to Calgary by CMH bus, arriving in the late evening. Most guests will overnight at the Delta Calgary Airport Hotel before flying out the next day (CMH representatives will once again be on hand to help with advance check-in). Early departures from the lodges, with a mid-afternoon arrival in Calgary (for early evening flights), are available for an extra charge. Skiers destined for CMH Kootenay have the option of joining our transportation in Calgary, Alberta; Castlegar, British Columbia; or Spokane, Washington. Transportation is included in the trip price for all Kootenay trips. Accommodation at Spokane International Airport is at the Airport Ramada Inn. |