The bigness of Bella Coola is hard to imagine until you are staring directly at 9,000 vertical feet of relief from tidewater to gnarled, glaciated peaks. Heli pilots often score the best seat in the house for the peak show. Photo: Blake Jorgenson Matty Richard airing it out above the valley fog in the Big Snow Zone, an orographic miracle where Arctic air consistently collides with intense Pacific flows channeling moisture up the fjords—a forecasting phenomenon that equals surprisingly light-density snow in sight of the sea. Photo: Blake Jorgenson
The Ski Journal Volume 15, Issue 1: Page 72
