Heli-skiing out, Plane Assisted Skiing in. While the name needs a little work — sounds like a high adventure retirement community — the basic concept is fun enough. But for us, it the all-encompassing expanse of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park that takes this basic concept to conquering heights. There is the whole conversation surrounding fuel consumption that speaks to both practices of airborne transport, a conversation that needs to happen and absolutely should not be ignore, but the somewhat throwback propellor plane uses a lot less of said fuel… so it has that going for them, which is nice.
What exactly is Ultima Thule? “Lodge-based fly and backcountry ski adventures give you the best of all worlds: a day in the Alaskan wilderness with boundless untracked powder lines, followed by a hearty meal and a soak in our cedar-fired hot tub.”
Sound familiar?
Anyway, Ultima Thule covers 13 million acres of what would be that sought after, untouched virgin powder. And making this convergence of four mountain ranges (yes, four) all the cooler, it is located in the largest protected land mass on earth. How about that for a tagline?
