I am on the right track here because heli skiing is the ultimate!
I was chatting to one of my operators last night, to their lead guide, who told me that he’s in the heli ski business for his love of heli skiing (no surprise). And he told me that the reason he wanted to work with me, was because he could see from my website and had heard through the grapevine, of the passion that I hold for skiing and specifically heli skiing. No surprise either..
Yours truly loving this powder day at Chatter Creek Cat Skiing over New Year's 2010.
He then told me about his clients, who, in their 80’s, are the oldest heli skier couple in the world, an Austrian couple who are in the Guinness Book of World Records for it, and they only take heliski holidays (that’s a whole ‘nother blog though).
On a related note, I met a very wealthy business man recently, who I discovered is a skier but hasn’t heliskied. (I think he does all of the usual adventure male sports though like car racing, and sailing, so I figure he has the guts and all). This got me thinking…Firstly, ‘why not?’ I mean the guy can clearly afford it, and has a penchance for adrenaline sports, so why hasn’t this guy gone heli skiing before?
I figure that my long held belief holds true- That there is a huge educational opportunity to create awareness about heli skiing, and dispel myths about the level of skier you need to be to do it. Meeting him also made me slightly sad, since I know so many amazing, adventurous skiers/ boarders who would LOVE, no practically give their right arm to go heli skiing but the financial investment is beyond their means right now (we do have a product though which may appeal, cat skiing as it’s half the investment).
And you see, sitting in my shoes, as the CEO of Total Heliski, (the fastest growing winter sports company who specialise in promoting and booking heli skiing), what my operator said to me holds true. Without meaning to pose, but being honest here- I have done many amazingly adventurous and fun things in my life- race track driving, solo parachuting, surfing, scuba diving, learning to fly planes, big rollercoasters, rock climbing, rafting big white water, trekking in the Himalayas, mountaineering, mountain biking to name a few. And NONE of those experiences (with the exception of solo parachuting), come close to the adrenaline rush, and endorphins or ‘feel good’ sensations that I have achieved and continue to achieve via heli skiing. It’s indeed a powder addiction for me. And, I love sharing and enabling others to try it too.
Snow
So I guess after I got off the phone from that operator, I felt enormously pleased that he understood what I am trying to do with my business. To educate and inspire people to try the one thing that I adore and love, even after doing all of those other fun things. I made a ‘note to self’- I am on the right track here….
On a related note, I met a very wealthy business man recently, who I discovered is a skier but hasn’t heliskied. (I think he does all of the usual adventure male sports though like car racing, and sailing, so I figure he has the guts and all). This got me thinking…Firstly, ‘why not?’ I mean the guy can clearly afford it, and has a penchance for adrenaline sports, so why hasn’t this guy gone heli skiing before?
I figure that my long held belief holds true- That there is a huge educational opportunity to create awareness about heli skiing, and dispel myths about the level of skier you need to be to do it. Meeting him also made me slightly sad, since I know so many amazing, adventurous skiers/ boarders who would LOVE, no practically give their right arm to go heli skiing but the financial investment is beyond their means right now (we do have a product though which may appeal, cat skiing as it’s half the investment).
And you see, sitting in my shoes, as the CEO of Total Heliski, (the fastest growing winter sports company who specialise in promoting and booking heli skiing), what my operator said to me holds true. Without meaning to pose, but being honest here- I have done many amazingly adventurous and fun things in my life- race track driving, solo parachuting, surfing, scuba diving, learning to fly planes, big rollercoasters, rock climbing, rafting big white water, trekking in the Himalayas, mountaineering, mountain biking to name a few. And NONE of those experiences (with the exception of solo parachuting), come close to the adrenaline rush, and endorphins or ‘feel good’ sensations that I have achieved and continue to achieve via heli skiing. It’s indeed a powder addiction for me. And, I love sharing and enabling others to try it too.
So I guess after I got off the phone from that operator, I felt enormously pleased that he understood what I am trying to do with my business. To educate and inspire people to try the one thing that I adore and love, even after doing all of those other fun things. I made a ‘note to self’- I am on the right track here….