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Your Heliskiing/Boarding vacation in the Canadian Wilderness can be a truly special experience in part due to the high standards of operational safety in our industry and the technical expertise of our guides and pilots.
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Peace Reach Adventures Ltd., is a member of the British Columbia Helicopter and Snowcat Skiing Operators Association, and follow their strict safety and operations guidelines and standards.
Guides
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Our ski guides are certified by the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG), the International Federation of Mountain Guides (IFMGA/UIAGM) and/or the Canadian Ski Guides Association (CSGA). In addition, our guides belong to the Canadian Avalanch Association (CAA). As well as public information and education in avalanch science and rescue techniques, the CAA implements a data-sharing system that aids our guides in making accurate assessements of snow stability when they correlate it with local field data.
Helicopter Pilots)
Pacific Western Helicopters Ltd. supply us with helicopters. They follow a rigorous schedule of safety inspections and maintenance by their own engineers on our site, or at their base in Mackenzie, BC. Our pilots have extensive mountain flying experience, have taken part in mountain training programs, and have superb local knowledge. The pilots and guides work together to bring you the best skiing day possible.
Communications and Emergency Response Team
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Pilots and/or guides report their location to the base station every half hour. The guides carry rescue, first aid, and backcountry survival equipment in their packs. In addition, rescue equipment, survival supplies and additional first aid supplies are carried in the helicopter. The base station is equipped with additional back-up supplies for field rescues as well as incidents that arise at or near the lodge. There are also completely equipped rescue caches in several different areas in the Mountains.
Injury or Illness
In the event of an emergency, your guides and pilots are trained in every possible scenario. The helicopter is used for transportation, perhaps for direct transfer to the hospital, or to a waiting ground transfer vehicle.
Guests must cover the cost for evacuation by helicopter at their own expense. We recommend that you carry insurance for such ambulance service in the event of an emergency.