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Sverre's Mica Sweetspot - a test of patience
Published on April 3, 2008. 12:00
Sverre Liliequist report from Mica Heli Guides, Canada , April 2:nd 2008
After a pretty crazy season with a lot of traveling and a lot of free skiing competitions I’m now in Canada at the Mica Heli Guides lodge.
I’m here doing my Sweetspot for Nike ACG. I feel so fortunate being here, heli skiing some of the best terrain in the world. We are a very small crew, Myself as the athlete, Sasha from Wink Inc as a filmer, Seb as a still photographer and Spencer Francey from Chasing Winter Productions as the location producer.
To get here is a little adventure by it self. I was flying from Stockholm Sweden, where I live, to Calgary via Frankfurt . After that you drive about five hours west, passing Revelstoke and until the road ends at the Mica dam.
Parking the car and loading the heli, flying into the unknown wilderness. The Mica Heli Lodge is located by the foot of the mountains, with a killing view filled with water and mountains, wow!
We have now been flying for three days, and the snow is great. The only issue for us, and it’s a BIG issue, is that there is a bad snow layer, about 80cm down under the fresh powder, that is very unstable. This means that the avalanche situation is forcing us to stay in the lower areas, and unfortunately we have to leave the big lines in the higher areas untouched…
I was here two years ago with ACG, and it was the totally opposite, to warm and wet to ski the lower stuff, so we had to fly far into the higher lines and glaciers to find the powder snow. That’s the way it is sometimes, you have to play with the rules by Mother Nature…
That’s kind of hard to deal with, since I have been traveling half the world to come here to ski some big lines, but what can you do? Instead we have put our focus on pillow lines in more safe terrain, which is great! Skiing pillows is every skiers dream I think. The ones here is perfect, but at this time a little bit to hard to charge full on, but I’m sure Seb´s got some pretty nice stills on this trip for sure.
Anyway, tomorrow we are hoping for great weather again, Seb spotted a pretty crazy line today that I doubt anyone has ever skied before. I’m hoping to leave this trip with a first decent under my belt J
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