Heli-hiking adventure in the Rockies

Heli-Hiking Adventure in the Rockies

CMH Summer Adventure

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Heli-Hiking Adventure in the Rockies

CMH Summer Adventure

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Your trip highlights

Hike among swirling glaciers and theatrical spires or raise your adrenaline on a thrilling via ferrata.
Your guides will plan each day’s excursions according to your preferred activity types and ability. Any way you experience the Bugaboos, they’ll stay with you forever.
Each day offers the chance to heli somewhere different – with exclusive access.
On each day of your 3-to-8-night getaway, you’ll be dropped off by helicopter so you can travel to otherwise unreachable ridgelines, glaciers and alpine meadows.

Daily flights from Heathrow to Calgary are available on British Airways and Air Canada.

Flights to Calgary from London Gatwick run up to three times a week during the summer on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Choose from three inspiring locations:

Cariboo Lodge
Bugaboo Lodge
Bobbie Burns Lodge

These iconic mountain lodges are your basecamp for adventure. Choose a single destination or a lodge-to-lodge experience.

What's included

CMH provides the following for each trip:

Accommodations

A double occupancy room in a remote CMH lodge for the duration of your trip.

Food & Beverage

Three meals per day – a chef-prepared breakfast and dinner plus packed lunches, après-hiking appetizers and a selection of non-alcoholic refreshments. CMH does everything possible to accommodate guests with allergies; however, as our lodges are open to the public, we cannot guarantee an allergen-free environment.

Heli-Assisted Guided Adventure

ACMG-accredited guides will lead you on your adventure, featuring heli flights up and down the mountains plus return flights to your lodge.

Equipment

Use of CMH hiking equipment, including boots, rain jackets, wind pants, day packs and hiking poles. Some of our guests opt to use their own equipment – the choice is yours.

Ground Transportation

Coach transportation on the first morning of your CMH trip from Calgary International Airport (YYC), Banff, or Lake Louise to the helipad, and return to Lake Louise, Banff, or the Calgary International Airport on the final day of your CMH trip.

What’s Not Included

Alcoholic beverages, premium non-alcoholic beverages, massages, retail goods available for purchase, nor airfare to and from your city of origin.

Lodge Amenities – All Lodges

Guest capacity: 44

Amenities

• WiFi

• Lodgeside Helipad

• Outdoor Hot Tub

• Sauna

• Massage Services

• Fitness Facilities

• Complimentary Laundry

• Private Dining Room

• Bar/Lounge

• Great Room

• Retail Shop

• Musical Instruments

• Games

• Climbing or Bouldering Wall

• Swimming Pond

Hike at your own pace

Each day is tailored to all levels of desires, experience, level of fitness and agility.

Travel by Helicopter

Each day you’ll be dropped off by helicopter so you can travel to otherwise unreachable ridgelines, glaciers and alpine meadows.

Hospitality

Enjoy warm mountain hospitality with chef-prepared meals and bartender-crafted drinks.

Spa

Relax after a long day of hiking in the spa.

Three inspiring locations to choose from:

These iconic mountain lodges are your basecamp for adventure. Choose a single destination or a lodge-to-lodge experience.

Find yourself in unexpected luxury, deep in the Canadian wilderness. It all begins at one of CMH's three iconic, fly-in lodges, located far from the crowds and rhythms of everyday life. Here you’ll be cared for with warm mountain hospitality and enjoy chef-prepared meals, bartender-crafted drinks, a comfortable room and bathroom, spa with massage, and more.

CMH Cariboo Lodge

Explore the rugged and remote high country. From the comfort of CMH Cariboo Lodge, you and your guides will take off by helicopter to explore ancient glaciers, majestic peaks, canyon waterfalls, vast alpine meadows, turquoise tarns and more.

Trip durations

5 Days / 4 Nights
9 Days / 8 Nights

Transport

5-7.5 hr private coach from Calgary/Banff to helipad
Other select pick-up locations available
10 min heli flight to lodge

Hike on arrival day: Yes

Hike on departure day: Yes

Features

1x Via ferrata - Zillmer Canyon
Legendary Hikes - Buehler Lake, Crazy Horse, 9th Hole, Zillmer Glacier
Iconic landmarks - Canoe Glacier

CMH Bugaboo Lodge

Discover the legendary CMH original. Each day at CMH Bugaboo Lodge offers unprecedented heli-access to world-famous spires, massive icefields, glacial lakes and panoramic cirques. Follow in the footsteps of legendary mountaineers as you roam among sky-scraping granite titans.

Trip durations

4 Days / 3 Nights
7 Days / 6 Nights

Transport

2-3.5 hour private coach from Calgary/Banff to helipad
Other select pick-up locations available
10 min heli flight to lodge

Hike on arrival day: Yes

Hike on departure day: No

Features

1x Via ferrata - Skyladder
Legendary Hikes - Cobalt Lake, Thunderwater Lake, Vowell Glacier
Iconic landmarks - Bugaboo Spires, Howser Towers

CMH Bobbie Burns Lodge

Experience the ultimate alpine playground. The newly renovated CMH Bobbie Burns Lodge elevates mountain fun to spirit-soaring heights. Towering arêtes, dramatic moraines, ice-carved valleys and one-of-a-kind adventures frame an incredible heli-access trip you’ll remember forever.

Trip durations

4 Days / 3 Nights
7 Days / 6 Nights

Transport

2-3.5 hour private coach from Calgary/Banff to helipad
Other select pick-up locations available
10 min heli flight to lodge

Hike on arrival day: Yes

Hike on departure day: No

Features

2x Via Ferrata - Mt. Nimbus and Conrad Glacier
Legendary Hikes - Grizzly Ridge, Anthea's, Snowman Pass
Iconic landmarks - Iceberg Lake, Conrad Glacier

Overview

What is heli-hiking?

The CMH heli-accessed hiking program takes guests and 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, these 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 CMH on a mountain adventure, we want you to see everything you want to see, at the pace you enjoy exploring. Their 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.

Day by Day Itinerary

Day 1 | Arrival in Calgary

Stay for one night in Calgary. There is an early start in the morning so you may wish to use this evening to rest.

Day 2 | Your CMH Summer Adventure Begins!

5:00 am - Depart via the CMH coach from Calgary, Banff or other pick-up locations and journey along the spectacular Yoho National Park on your way to the helipad.

9:30 am - Arrive at helipad for heli-transfer to your CMH Lodge of choice.

10:30-11:00 am - Upon arrival, you’ll get acquainted with the lodge

11:30 am- Lunch

1:00 pm- After a helicopter safety briefing, enjoy your first hike exploring the mountains.

4:00-5:00 pm - Return back to the lodge where you can enjoy après-adventure refreshments, a soak in the hot tub or a massage

7:00 pm - Enjoy your first CMH gourmet family-style dinner – staff will join you for the meal each evening

Exploration Days (Days 2-3, 2-4, 2-6 or 2-8 depending on length of trip chosen)

7:30 am - Wake up with a dynamic warm-up class

8:00 am - Fuel up with a hearty breakfast to start your day right. Pack your lunch for the day and get ready for your day of adventure through your choice of hiking or via ferrata.

9:00 am- First hiking group will fly up into the mountains

12:00 pm - Lunch in the field

4:00-5:00 pm - Return back to the lodge where you can enjoy aprés-adventure refreshments, a soak in the hot tub or a massage

7:00 pm - Swap stories of your incredible adventures in the mountains as you enjoy family style dinner with your guides and lodge staff

The below featured experiences are not guaranteed and are weather dependent:

• Skyladder Via Ferrata – 8 min. via Heli, Intermediate to advanced, 2-4 hours

• Cobalt Lake Legendary Hikes – 8 min. via Heli, everyone can enjoy, up to 2 hours

• Howser Towers Landmark – 5 min. via Heli. Everyone can enjoy.

• Thunderwater Lake Legendary Hike – 10 min. via Heli, Everyone can enjoy, up to 2 hours.

• Bugaboo Spires Landmark – Everyone can enjoy

• Vowell Glacier Legendary Hike – 8 min. via Heli. Everyone can enjoy. Up to 2 hours.

Departure Day