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Boreal Adventure Sailing
Zug, Tromsø, Switzerland
Boreal Adventure Sailing is an Operator that runs small-group sailing expeditions above the Arctic Circle. Their expedition sailboats serve as a floating base for ski touring, hiking, sea kayaking, and wildlife viewing in places no road reaches. The company was co-founded by offshore racing skipper Lionel Lemonchois, and each voyage combines a professional skipper, an IFMGA-certified mountain guide, and a first mate and chef on board. They operate in northern Norway, Svalbard, and East Greenland. Winter and spring center on Ski & Sail: 8-day voyages with 6 ski days. Guests tour from the boat in Bodø and the Lofoten Islands in early to mid March, in the Lyngen Alps from late March through April, and on the west coast of Svalbard from mid-May into June. Because the boat is the base, the crew can sail to, anchor at, and land guests wherever snow and weather are best, then move overnight to the next day's terrain. Tours typically run 4 to 8 hours on peaks of roughly 500 to 1,500 meters. A First Timers program in the Lyngen Alps is designed for confident powder skiers who are new to ski touring. In summer, the focus shifts to Sail & Explore and Sail & Kayak. These 10-day expeditions in Svalbard and East Greenland center on shore landings, hiking, kayaking among icebergs, and Arctic wildlife, including polar bears, walruses, whales, seals, and Arctic foxes. A 15-day Lofoten, Northern Lights and Fjords voyage runs in September. For guests who want to learn the sailing side, Boreal also runs offshore passages linking France, Norway, Svalbard, Iceland, and Greenland, with hands-on instruction in navigation, sail trimming, weather routing, and night watches. Private, bespoke voyages are available too. Groups are small, with a maximum of 6 guests per voyage. The fleet includes Varuna (22 m / 73 ft) and Intrepido (21 m / 69 ft), two aluminum exploration sloops built by the Garcia shipyard for unlimited-range passages, plus Kéraban Le Têtu, a 16 m / 55 ft Cigale 16 designed by Jean-Marie Finot. Cabins are double-berth, each with its own en-suite toilet and shower and individually controlled heating. Boreal's boats are certified to carry paying passengers and are maintained to at least World Sailing Offshore Special Regulations Category 1 standards.
Eleven Experience
Crested Butte, CO, United States
Eleven Experience is an adventure travel Operator, founded in 2011 and based in Crested Butte, Colorado, that pairs small, design-focused private lodges with expert-guided adventures in remote mountain destinations. Winter is the core of what they do: heliskiing in British Columbia, Iceland, and the Alps, cat skiing on their own private terrain outside Crested Butte, and guided off-piste skiing, ski touring, and resort skiing from two chalets in the French Alps. In British Columbia, Eleven Revelstoke Lodge is the base for heliskiing on a 300,000-acre tenure across the Monashee and Selkirk ranges, which Eleven says averages about 700 inches of snow a year. Programs are built around private helicopters: groups fly their own A-Star B3 with dedicated guides and a guaranteed minimum of daily flight time, at guest-to-guide ratios of 3:2 or 4:1, and some configurations offer unlimited vertical. The season runs mid-December through March. In northern Iceland, Eleven Deplar Farm flies guests straight from its own helipads onto 1.8 million acres of the Troll Peninsula, about 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle, with a heliski season that runs from the end of February into early June and the long days of the midnight sun. Every stay at Deplar during heliski season includes heliskiing. For U.S. skiers, Eleven's flagship Scarp Ridge Lodge and neighboring Sopris House in downtown Crested Butte connect directly to Irwin, Eleven's 1,000+ acre private cat-skiing terrain 13 miles west of town, which averages 450+ inches of snow a year. Conditions permitting, the snowcat picks guests up at the lodge's front door. In France, Chalet Hibou and Chalet Pelerin sit in the Tarentaise Valley hamlet of Le Miroir, surrounded by seven ski resorts including Val d'Isère and Tignes, with locally based IFMGA-certified guides and Eleven's heliskiing operation just across the border in Italy. What ties it all together is the lodge model. Eleven's properties are small, typically 4 to 13 rooms, and most can be booked by the room or bought out entirely. Stays come with chef-prepared meals, saunas, hot tubs, and wellness amenities, and an Experience Team that plans each itinerary before arrival. Outside of winter, Eleven also runs fly-fishing lodges in Chilean Patagonia and on New Zealand's South Island, summer adventures from several of their ski lodges, and Bahama House on Harbour Island in The Bahamas.
Japan Ski Tours
Nishi-tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Ski Tours runs guided and hosted ski road trips across Japan's three major powder regions: Hokkaido, Tohoku, and Nagano/Niigata. The company was founded in 2014 as part of Japan Guides Group, which started in 2007 as the only English-oriented guiding operation on Mt. Fuji. Japan Ski Tours is run by bilingual guides who grew up in Japan, and it is an ANTA-certified, licensed Japanese travel agency registered in Tokyo. The company is built on the idea that a ski trip to Japan shouldn't force a choice between powder and culture. Their itineraries mix ski days with authentic regional restaurants, in-hotel onsen hot springs, and stays in traditional ryokan inns. Some trips add cultural extras such as a traditional music and dance performance or an evening with a Maiko performer. Their guides and hosts pick restaurants for regional specialties and authenticity, so guests eat where locals eat instead of in the international enclaves of Japan's busiest resorts. Their trips fall into two styles. The guided Hokkaido Storm Chaser is a 7-day off-piste road trip that skis a different resort each of its 6 ski days. It runs from two bases, Furano and Otaru, with a 1:4 guide ratio and a maximum group of 8. Each day's resort is chosen by the forecast, and the focus is lift-accessed sidecountry powder. Private guiding is also available: a private Storm Chaser, a 5-day Hakkoda backcountry trip based in the historic city of Hirosaki, daily backcountry guiding at Ani, and Niseko-area guiding through their partner Hokkaido Vibe. Their Indy Trips are unguided but fully hosted group road trips, built for Indy Pass holders and open to everyone. There are 8- and 10-day Tohoku trips, a 9-day Nagano trip, and a 9-day Hokkaido trip. Each covers accommodation, most meals, private charter transfers between resorts, and a JST host who travels with the group. Guests without an Indy Pass book as Standard Guests with all lift tickets included. Each day is the guest's to shape: resort laps, a touring day, or a rest day exploring the area. Japan Ski Tours also operates its own property, Anaba Lodge, a renovated pension-style ski lodge at the base of Ani Ski Resort in Akita Prefecture, built for skiers who like to earn their turns. Trips run from early January into early March. Contact Heli to book.
Phantom Heli
Squamish , British Columbia , Canada
Phantom Heli is a small-group heliskiing and snowboarding Operator based in Squamish, British Columbia, flying the Coast Mountains of the Sea to Sky corridor between Vancouver and Whistler. The operation is owned and run by local mountain guides, and flies in partnership with Black Tusk Helicopter Inc, which provides the aircraft and holds the Crown land tenure. Their main base is about a 25-minute drive from Whistler Village, with Adventures also departing from Whistler and, for private groups, downtown Vancouver. The tenure covers 247,000 acres of skiable terrain, which Phantom Heli says is more than 33 times the size of Whistler Blackcomb, with over 200 named runs and new ones skied with guests regularly. Many runs drop more than 1,000 meters, the longest top 1,500 meters, and the area averages around 12 meters (40 feet) of snowfall a year. Expect massive coastal glaciers, alpine bowls, old-growth tree skiing, Coast Mountain steeps, and pillows, drops, and spines. Phantom Heli runs its Adventures as single days. The Private package gives one group of up to 4 guests a guide and a helicopter to themselves, while Semi-private days put two groups in one helicopter. Six Run and Freeride 4-run days share a helicopter between three groups. For skiers who want to earn some of their turns, the Heli-Assisted Ski Touring day starts with a helicopter drop and a first descent, then spends the day touring before an afternoon pickup. Every group is capped at 4 guests per guide. A typical heli day starts with an 8:00 AM pickup at your accommodation, safety briefings, and liftoff around 9:00, with a picnic lunch in the mountains. Guides are certified through the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG) or the AMGA, and daily guiding operations run in conjunction with Altus Mountain Guides. Guides and pilots work together on a risk management program built around weather and snow conditions, and the head guide makes the fly or no-fly call by 4:30 PM the day before or by 7:30 AM on the day. Black Tusk flies modern A-Star AS350 helicopters seating 4 guests and 1 guide per group, and emergency helicopter evacuation is included for every guest.
Ruby Mountain Heli
Lamoille, NV, United States
Ruby Mountain Heli is a family-owned heliskiing and heliboarding Operator based in Lamoille, Nevada, flying the Ruby Mountains of northeastern Nevada since 1977. Founder Joe Royer was a ski patroller at Snowbird in the early 1970s when he started eyeing the range from I-80 on drives home to San Francisco, and in the winter of 1977 he began exploring it — becoming the first person to set foot in much of the terrain the operation skis today. Joe, his wife Francy, and their son Mike still run the business together. The Rubies are a remote range, 90 miles long and 10 to 12 miles wide, with more than 200,000 acres of skiable terrain and over 400 named runs on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, where Ruby Mountain Heli operates as a U.S. Forest Service partner. Fifteen peaks top 11,000 feet, including 11,387-foot Ruby Dome, the highest in the range, and runs deliver up to 3,500 vertical feet through open alpine bowls, aspen forests, and whitebark and limber pine. It's a high-desert snowpack, averaging around 300 inches a season, and the snow tends to be very dry. There's no ski town or ski area nearby and very few other backcountry users, so it's rare for guests to see anyone outside the operation. Ruby Mountain Heli keeps things small: a maximum of 16 guests per tour, skiing in groups at a 4:1 guest-to-guide ratio, and flying an A-Star 350 B3. When storms or high winds ground the helicopter, guests ski from Pisten Bully snowcats in Conrad Creek instead, starting at 10,000 feet and leaving straight from the lodge's ski room door. Ruby describes itself as the only lower-48 member of Heli-Ski U.S. to offer snowcat skiing as a daily weather backup. Every guide holds a Level 3/Pro 1 or Pro 2 avalanche certification through AIARE or the American Avalanche Institute, plus Wilderness First Responder, EMT, or Outdoor Emergency Care medical training. Trips are based at Ruby 360 Lodge, the Royers' own 10-room lodge at 7,000 feet at the base of the range, where Francy Royer and her team run a food and beverage program built on more than 40 years of culinary experience. The core Adventures are an all-inclusive 3-day heli package and a single-day heli package, with heli-assist touring and a 3-day, 2-night backcountry yurt trip for skiers who'd rather earn some of their turns. The season runs from mid-January into early April. It's also an easy one to reach: the lodge is 3.5 hours from Salt Lake City and 5 hours from Reno, and guests flying into nearby Elko are picked up at the airport.
Selkirk Tangiers Heli Skiing
Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Selkirk Tangiers Heli Skiing (STHS) has been running heli-skiing operations out of Revelstoke, British Columbia, since 1978, when Swiss mountain guide Peter Schlunegger — a fourth-generation guide whose family's mountain guiding roots trace back to 1899 in nearby Rogers Pass — staged the operation's first exploratory flights near the Tangiers River in the Selkirk Mountains. Now in its fifth decade, STHS holds the largest heli-ski tenure in Revelstoke: over 500,000 acres and 400+ established runs across the Selkirk and Monashee ranges, bordered by two national parks and averaging 40 to 60 feet of snowfall a year. STHS operates from the Coast Hillcrest Hotel, just minutes from downtown Revelstoke, where guests check in, gear up, and fly directly from the property. The operation runs a mixed helicopter fleet — the Airbus H125 (A-Star), Bell 212, and Bell 412 — flown in partnership with Wildcat Helicopters of Kelowna, BC, allowing STHS to match aircraft to group size, from small private parties to larger multi-day groups. Packages range from single-day outings to week-long multi-day trips, along with private charters, heli-assisted touring for experienced backcountry skiers, and Pinnacle packages that pair private heli-skiing with luxury partner-lodge stays. All guiding is provided by ACMG/IFMGA-certified guides, and every package includes use of STHS's powder ski and snowboard fleet along with emergency medical and helicopter evacuation coverage. Since 2007, STHS has operated as part of Revelstoke Mountain Resort, giving guests the option to pair their heli-skiing with lift access to North America's highest vertical descent (5,620 feet) at the neighboring resort. STHS is led today by General Manager Dave Pehowich, who joined the operation in 1996 and worked his way up through guiding and operations before taking the role in 2022.
Viking Heliskiing
Siglufjörður, Nordurland Eystra, Iceland
Viking Heliskiing is a family-owned heliskiing and heliboarding Operator based in Siglufjörður, Iceland's northernmost town, on the Troll Peninsula (Tröllaskagi) in North Iceland. Founded by Björgvin and Jóhann, lifelong friends and local mountain guides, the company is run by two Icelandic families and built on more than a decade of guiding in the region. Siglufjörður sits about 25 km from the Arctic Circle and is surrounded by the same mountains Viking skis, so the terrain starts right outside town. Viking says it operates on the largest privately owned heliskiing terrain in Europe, spread across the Troll Peninsula and Iceland's Gold Coast. Vertical drops reach up to 1,500 meters (about 4,500 feet), and many runs go from summit all the way down to the North Atlantic. The season runs from early March into June, moving from powder early on to stable spring corn snow later, often under the midnight sun. Northern Lights viewing is best from early March through mid-April. What sets Viking apart is how the skiing is sold. They're the only Operator in Iceland that packages heliskiing by vertical feet rather than helicopter flight time, so guests pay for the skiing itself. Classic packages run 3, 4, or 5 days with a set amount of vertical, in groups of 4 guests and 1 guide, with up to 3 groups per helicopter. Private and semi-private packages give one or two groups their own helicopter with unlimited vertical, based either at Sigló Hotel in Siglufjörður or at Eldar North Lodge, a private four-suite lodge on the Eyjafjörður fjord near Akureyri with the helicopter based on site. Viking also offers heli-assisted touring, pure ski touring, and custom trips. Packages include lodging, breakfast, lunch, and a three-course dinner each day, plus a new-each-season fleet of K2 skis and snowboards and a full BCA avalanche safety kit. Flights are run with partner SENNAIR in AS-350 B3 (Airbus H125) helicopters, flown by Arctic-trained pilots.