Heli Skiing Spain

A typical day of heli skiing Spain begins with waking up in a picturesque place like Val d’ Aran and enjoying stunning views and Spanish mountain cuisine. Afterwards, you’ll walk out your door to the helipad where you’ll hop aboard an A-Star helicopter for your first run of the day.

Despite not being as well-known as other European heli ski destinations, people have been heli skiing Spain for long enough to establish hundreds of descents in the Pyrenees, so you’ll have plenty of choices for where you’ll ski or snowboard.

Your helicopter ride will be shorter in duration than your average chairlift ride. Yet quickly ascending 800 meters of vertical means you’ll have some long, choice lines to explore. The terrain itself is mostly moderate along with extreme pitch that will challenge even pro skiers. 

However, the infrastructure, moderate terrain, and proximity to plenty of other attractions throughout the country, make heli skiing Spain a great choice for first time heli skiers.

And resort skiing at Baqueira –Beret is said to be very uncrowded, laid-back and of excellent quality.

While you may think of Spain and imagine beachside paella, the mountainous regions of the country more closely approximate an Atlantic climate rather than a Mediterranean one. That means you get long winters that allow skiing from December to May and heavy snow that creates stable snowpacks.

In fact, the snow falls so heavily in the Pyrenees that Val d’Aran was completely isolated from the outside world during winter until a tunnel was built under the mountains in 1948. That isolation allowed the region to grow a unique culture and even its own language, known as Aranese.

On top of the great conditions, heli skiing Spain also means you get to enjoy complete freedom thanks to the way Spain has applied limited regulation for the heli skiing industry.