The Classic
A week in a warm motor home at the heli base on Thompson Pass, in the heart of where Alaskan heli skiing started. Meal packages available on site.
$6,4952020 season rate — confirm current pricing
8,500
Drop-off
5,500
Longest descent
2,000
Timberline
0
Valdez, sea level
The Chugach, one rider at a time.
Heli skiing and heli boarding out of Thompson Pass, Valdez, Alaska. Groups of four to six. Two and a half thousand square miles of terrain. Runs that go from a ridge-top drop-off to the pickup without a single track on them.
Valdez, Alaska
The snowiest place in Alaska, and we are based in the middle of it.
There is a reason people in the know book with ASG: we make the trip actually happen.
Our base on Thompson Pass sits in the snowiest place in Alaska — an average of 551.5 inches a year, and the U.S. record of 974 inches set here in 1953. That puts thousands of acres of heli-accessible terrain and reliably deep powder within a few minutes' flight of the pad.
If you are trying to decide where to heli ski in Alaska and you want the authentic version of it, this is it.
A day on the pass
30–35kft
Vertical in an average heli day
2,500sq mi
Terrain within reach of our bases
4–6
Riders per group, one on the slope at a time
551.5in
Average annual snowfall on Thompson Pass
Why riders pick ASG
Easy to get to
Fly into Anchorage, then a short hop or a five-hour drive to Valdez. No expedition logistics, no glacier approach — you are riding on day one.
Built for every level
Wide open bowls and wind waves for strong intermediates; spines, couloirs and 50-degree faces for anyone the guide clears for them.
Flexible by design
Our packages are sold as flight hours over a seven-day week, not as fixed days. A bad weather stretch does not cost you your runs.
Why we fly small groups
Four to six riders, and only one of them on the slope.
Unlike the group skiing done in Canada, we ride one person at a time. The lines are big and the hazards are real, so keeping the group off the slope keeps the group out of each other's way — and it means your guide is watching you, not managing a train of eight people.
The terrain rewards it. Timberline in the Chugach sits around 2,000 feet, so nearly everything we ride is high alpine: long ramps, giant bowls, spines, natural halfpipes, wind waves and glaciers split by rock. Runs go from 2,000 to 5,500 vertical feet, and we rarely ride the same one twice in a week.
“It's like taking 100 powder days and combining them into one run.”
Packages
Pick the week that suits how you want to live for seven days.
The Inclusive
Nights in Valdez with a private kitchen and laundry, breakfast sat down, and transport to and from the pass every day. Everything handled.
$7,9852020 season rate — confirm current pricing
Touring camp
Seven days camped on a glacier, surrounded by lines, with two guides and a camp chef. Flown in, flown out, everything else on foot.
$3,5002020 season rate — confirm current pricingStop dreaming about it.
Any skier or snowboarder who has spent time in the mountains has a version of this trip in their head. This is the year you go and find out how close you were.