Canada Heli Trip (part one)

Matt had the opportunity to ferry a helicopter to Calgary, Canada, to end his summer job in Alaska. And I was lucky enough to come along! It was an AMAZING ride- I took a million pictures and I still wish I could have captured it better. We took the two day journey along with Nick(another Era pilot), who flew the second helicopter to Canada. Instead of doing a collage when I have a ton of pictures, I thought these were worth posting separately.  Our route can be found here.

It's hard to comprehend just how vast the ice fields and massive these mountains are.

This was the most delicious site! Sure it's just glacier ice mixed with dirt... but to me it looked like the biggest bowl of cookies 'n cream I'd ever seen!

 I tried to be a good co-pilot by following us on a map... luckily Matt wasn't depending on me alone.

 I LOVE this picture!(above) It was SO beautiful here and this really shows the bright colors that were here.

The bluest water I had ever seen. You would have thought we were in Mexico or something! 

 I got smart after a while and realized that everything on the dash(not sure if that's what it's called) was being reflected in my pictures.  I had to be careful sitting here too- though my feet didn't quite reach the pedals, i had all the controls I needed to fly this heli myself. 

Our first stop was in Atlin, Canada.  We had to stop and refuel every couple hours or so.  It was a good thing too- those seats are not made to be comfortable. 

At every stop we(they) had to make a "flight plan", check weather, and such and so forth.
We stayed the first night in Watson Lake. The smallest town I've ever seen.  Luckily they had some of the nicest people who gave us rides to and from the airport.

Matt doing a pre-flight the next morning(making sure everything looks good to go).

 Above and on the right you can see the famous Alaskan Highway

To be continued...