What is heli-hiking?

What is heli-hiking?

Our heli-accessed hiking program takes guests and our professional guides directly into the high country with endless alpine vistas extending to the horizon.

From there, your guide will lead you along ridgelines, through alpine meadows, and to stunning viewpoints.

Matched to group dynamic, our adventures are led by guides with a wealth of knowledge about Canadian mountain flora, fauna, geology and history—as well as stories to share from lifetimes lived in the mountains.

From dramatic glaciers to route-finding across open terrain framed by wildflowers, the experience of heli-hiking at CMH is defined by wonder, education and awe around every corner.

Your trip, your pace

Do you prefer to amble at a leisurely pace? Do you want to see a variety of terrain, but stop occasionally to take photos along the way? Or are you longing to conquer multiple peaks and break a sweat?

When you join us on a mountain adventure, we want you to see everything you want to see, at the pace you enjoy exploring. Our guides meet every morning and evening to create a plan for each guest.

With groups of up to 11 guests and 2 guides in a Bell 212 helicopter, each day is tailored to all levels of desires, experience, level of fitness and agility. We split the groups as necessary so everyone can stay within their comfort level.

Exclusive access

Our guides are equally skilled at choosing terrain for a couple in their 90's who want a dreamy stroll along an easy ridge overlooking an alpine wonderland, to leading a team of hard-charging adventurers safely across a glacier.

Each day offers the chance to heli somewhere different – with exclusive access.

Guided groups might get dropped off in an alpine meadow and hike up to a summit, on a glacier to explore and hike, on a mountain ridge to hike down to alpine meadows or at the beginning of an exhilarating via ferrata.

These boots were made for walkin’

We have an enormous selection of terrain for our guides choose from, which means endless distance options.

The amount of horizontal distance you’ll cover each day will be customized by our guides to your group and your desires. Wander for a short distance, push across longer distances, or somewhere in between.

You’ll stand in awe at where your two feet will take you.

Going up!

Unlike regular hiking, you won’t have to slog for hours through the trees to gain much of your elevation. Instead, you’ll be lifted by helicopter to a starting point where the most scenic sections are still ahead of you.

From there, the amount of elevation you'll gain and lose (go up and down) on your heli-hiking adventure is tailored to each group.

If you want a strenuous challenge, expect to cover lots of varied terrain with a high level of elevation gain and loss. Or, if you are more sure-footed when less elevation change occurs, you’ll cover easier terrain with minimal to moderate elevation gain and loss.

Breathtaking views, or breathtaking views that also take your breath away? You choose!