Big Mountain Taxi

GUIDED SNOWMACHINE TAXI - VALDEZ ALASKA

Big Mountain Taxi LLC. welcomes all the Tailgate Alaska participants and King of the Hill contestants to VALDEZ, ALASKA! Big Mountain Taxi is offering snowmachine transport services during the Tailgate AK 2010 event. Most drop zones offer potential for 3500+ vertical descents of various terrain and aspects. Whether your looking for more remote splitboard/skitouring potential, single drops, gear hauling, or lapping vertical all day on a run of your choice. All trips will depart from the Tailgate Alaska base-camp. We will have at least five snowmachines and drivers to keep the riders rolling into the Alaskan Backcountry. Big Mountain Taxi will load you onto a snowmachine and transport you to one of our many chosen drop zones within the Thompson Pass Arena.

What to Expect:

We will have numerous drivers and sleds available for transporting backcountry users at a first come first serve basis. Everyone should have a partner in the backcountry. The buddy system is strictly enforced and every participant must provide all required safety gear other than the full-face helmet that will be worn by every client while the snowmachine is in operation. A Backpack, Harness with a locking carabiner, Avalanche Beacon, Shovel, and Probe are mandatory gear to participate in this activity. You will be given a brief safety talk and then asked to sign a liability waiver that will kept on file with our office.

Typical Shake-Down:

You buy your chips from Tailgate Alaska Base-camp office. Sign up for your rides at the base-camp office and get your name on the board for the day. Once you have your safety talk, helmet fitting, and wavier taken care of you will be driven via snowmachine to your chosen drop zone. You will wait at this drop zone for your partner to be dropped of as well. After you are driven to the drop zone your party will be on their own means of egress to the highway below. Transportation from the highway to the base-camp is not provided by Big Mountain Taxi. We will have all drop zones and trails marked on a topo map in the office and also pictures to provide more detail and riders can choose the type of terrain they are looking for. Each run will cost one chip. Some of our zones require two chips and will be marked on the map accordingly.