Aleyska

Anybody ever been to Aleyska? Worth the trip? Worth a few days? I am taking
my nephew on a trip for graduating college and he has been to CO/UT/Tahoe
quite a bit and was looking for something different. Would be going end of
Jan. Was also looking at British Columbia/Alberta road trip starting at Red
Mtn and ending at Lake Louise. Alaska looked good and thought MAYBE a
heliday in the area if conditions are worth it.

Thanks!

On Nov 29, 9:55 am, "helibrdr" wrote:
Anybody ever been to Aleyska? Worth the trip? Worth a few days? I am taking
my nephew on a trip for graduating college and he has been to CO/UT/Tahoe
quite a bit and was looking for something different. Would be going end of
Jan. Was also looking at British Columbia/Alberta road trip starting at Red
Mtn and ending at Lake Louise. Alaska looked good and thought MAYBE a
heliday in the area if conditions are worth it.

Thanks!

With Global Warming marching on, Aleyska is a sure bet to have snow.

Anybody ever been to Aleyska? Worth the trip? Worth a few days? I am
taking
my nephew on a trip for graduating college and he has been to CO/UT/Tahoe
quite a bit and was looking for something different. Would be going end
of
Jan. Was also looking at British Columbia/Alberta road trip starting at
Red
Mtn and ending at Lake Louise. Alaska looked good and thought MAYBE a
heliday in the area if conditions are worth it.

Thanks!

With Global Warming marching on, Aleyska is a sure bet to have snow.

They have had 237" this month and 40" in October!

"helibrdr" wrote in message news:fin1o8

Jan. Was also looking at British Columbia/Alberta road trip starting at
Red
Mtn and ending at Lake Louise. Alaska looked good and thought MAYBE a
heliday in the area if conditions are worth it.

Thanks!

With Global Warming marching on, Aleyska is a sure bet to have snow.

They have had 237" this month and 40" in October!

Aleyeska's looked good to me for a long time as well.

One thing to ask about before you send a deposit for heli - Short days.
Later in the season gets better but in Dec/early Jan I'm guessing its about
a 4 hour day.

On Nov 29, 3:13 pm, "Norm" wrote:
One thing to ask about before you send a deposit for heli - Short days.
Later in the season gets better but in Dec/early Jan I'm guessing its about
a 4 hour day.

According to http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.php
it'd be a little less than 8 hours on January 31 (using N61.0,
W149.1).

January 1 the day would only be 5:44. Of course, twilight lasts a lot
longer up there...

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:55:35 -0500, "helibrdr"
wrote this crap:

Anybody ever been to Aleyska? Worth the trip? Worth a few days? I am taking
my nephew on a trip for graduating college and he has been to CO/UT/Tahoe
quite a bit and was looking for something different. Would be going end of
Jan. Was also looking at British Columbia/Alberta road trip starting at Red
Mtn and ending at Lake Louise. Alaska looked good and thought MAYBE a
heliday in the area if conditions are worth it.

My sister has been there. She only had good things to say about it.




My T-shirt says, "This shirt is the
ultimate power in the universe."

With Global Warming marching on, Aleyska is a sure bet to have snow.

They have had 237" this month and 40" in October!

Aleyeska's looked good to me for a long time as well.

One thing to ask about before you send a deposit for heli - Short days.
Later in the season gets better but in Dec/early Jan I'm guessing its
about a 4 hour day.


I looked into that and they don't even offer heli until February because of
that. They say the best heli time is march/April up there.

On Nov 29, 7:41 pm, Harry wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:55:35 -0500, "helibrdr"
wrote this crap:

Anybody ever been to Aleyska? Worth the trip? Worth a few days? I am taking
my nephew on a trip for graduating college and he has been to CO/UT/Tahoe
quite a bit and was looking for something different. Would be going end of
Jan. Was also looking at British Columbia/Alberta road trip starting at Red
Mtn and ending at Lake Louise. Alaska looked good and thought MAYBE a
heliday in the area if conditions are worth it.

My sister has been there. She only had good things to say about it.

Post pics.

JP

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:42:32 -0800 (PST), Jay Pique
wrote this crap:

On Nov 29, 7:41 pm, Harry wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:55:35 -0500, "helibrdr"
wrote this crap:

Anybody ever been to Aleyska? Worth the trip? Worth a few days? I am taking
my nephew on a trip for graduating college and he has been to CO/UT/Tahoe
quite a bit and was looking for something different. Would be going end of
Jan. Was also looking at British Columbia/Alberta road trip starting at Red
Mtn and ending at Lake Louise. Alaska looked good and thought MAYBE a
heliday in the area if conditions are worth it.

My sister has been there. She only had good things to say about it.

Post pics.


She doesn't look good in a white tank top and orange shorts.





My T-shirt says, "This shirt is the
ultimate power in the universe."