Whether you’ve heli-skied before or not, it’s easy to see why you need an experienced guide to tell you where to drop in for the best lines and how to stay safe once you’re on the snow.
That goes double for a place like Baffin Island where arctic conditions, steep terrain, and wildlife all combine to make one of the wildest heliski destinations in the world.
Fortunately, Weber Arctic Heliski doesn’t only give you one experienced guide for their heliski tours. They give you an entire family.
Richard Weber and Josee Auclair are a husband and wife team who have been exploring the beautiful Arctic terrain since 1985, with their first commercial tour to the North Pole running in 1993. Since then, they, with the addition of their two sons and a team of other experienced arctic guides, have been guiding guests on all types of outdoor adventures on Baffin Island and in the Arctic.
Weber Arctic Heliski are exactly the type of guides you need in a place like Baffin Island to not only stay safe, but to make the most of your arctic adventure. Baffin Island is the 5th largest island in the world, which means simply finding the best heliski terrain is a huge challenge, literally.
Baffin Island: Weber Arctic Heliski's Playground
Baffin Island’s best ski terrain is the Arctic Cordillera on the northeastern shore. It also happens to be Weber Arctic Heliski’s backyard.
There you’ll find stunning fjords filled with wildlife as well as towering granite mountains that few people have ever seen, much less skied or snowboarded down. On top of the terrain, Baffin Island enjoys high pressure systems which create clear skies and cold air that make for perfect heliski conditions.
Accessing those mountains is just as easy as the weather thanks to Weber Arctic Heliski’s guiding and logistical experience. A journey to Baffin Island starts with a flight into Iqaluit, the capital of the Canadian province that includes Baffin Island. There, travelers will enjoy the native Inuit culture, before travelling north to their adventure with Weber Arctic.
Heliskiing with Weber Arctic And Beyond!
Although the Weber team offers everything from w
hale watching tours to heli-fishing, if you’re heli-skiing with them then you’ll head north from Iqaluit to their Basecamp Baffin site. Although Basecamp Baffin is in one of the most remote corners of the world, the Weber Arctic team has built a comfortable camp that includes a place to après, comfortable lodgings with a view, massages, and dips into an arctic lake on top of your heliskiing adventure. The Weber team also guides heliski adventures out of their equally remote and luxurious Arctic Watch basecamp on Ellesmere Island.
If the conditions do not allow for heliskiing, then the Weber team are the perfect people to come up with an alternate plan since they also guide arctic safaris, ski touring, and even biking tours all over Baffin Island. Most heliski tours with Weber start at 9 nights but thanks to their expertise you can plan just about any type of trip with Weber Arctic on Baffin Island!
