Article: HARD TO DOWNPLAY THE THRILL HELI-SKIING THE CHUGACH MOUNTAINS IN ALASKA BROADENS THE, WELL, HORIZONS.(Sports)

Byline: David O. Williams, Special to the News

C ORDOVA, Alaska - The longer we stood on our skis on the parking-spot-sized landing zone atop an unnamed pinnacle of rock and ice in southeastern Alaska's Chugach Mountains, the louder and more insistent my inner voice became: "Just where the hell are we supposed to ski?"

By the time I vocalized my concern to our Points North heli-guide, Will Paden, a 35-year-old avalanche forecaster from Squaw Valley, Calif., he already had begun cautiously but confidently making his way down a 50-degree pitch that dropped 4,000 vertical feet to the glacier below.

So this is what they meant by a "no-fall zone."

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