Heli Landing & Pickup Valley

This is a very brief video (I wanted to get more, but operator error resulted in shutting off the camera somehow!) of the helicopter approaching the drainage at the end of a 6,000 vertical run called Peekaboo to pick us up. Our legs were pretty tired and I could feel the burn on the very last face we descended into this drainage. It wasn't until the bottom that the snow displayed some wetter characteristics because of the lower altitude combined with the prodigious amount of sunshine. Thousands of feet of pristine, dry, fluffy, untouched powder was indeed a surreal experience, good for the spirit, and a dream come true for all of us!