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Wasatch Powderbird Guides' primary focus is your safety. We operate with modern, powerful helicopters, flown by experienced mountain pilots. Our guides are trained in Emergency Medical Care, Avalanche Hazard Evaluation, and Helicopter Safety.
We require that guests participate in two safety orientations the morning that they fly. The first orientation covers basic backcountry skiing safety, avalanche transceiver orientation, and rescue procedures. Then the helicopter orientation covers basic safety procedures in and around the helicopter while you are in the backcountry and at the heliport. Using common sense in the backcountry is extremely important. A couple safety suggestions are as follows: 
Remember to breathe. It is surprisingly easy to forget, especially on the first
exhilarating run Your safety is our priority. Please stay alert and listen to your guides in the backcountry. Guides
Rusty Dassing began guiding with Wasatch Powderbird Guides since 1984. He is a full-time guide with WPG and guided rafting trips in the Grand Canyon for years. Guiding, skiing, kayaking, rafting, and trekking have taken him many places throughout the US, as well as to Canada, Chile, Peru, Thailand, Indonesia, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and Ecuador. He is the President of Wasatch Powderbird Guides and makes his home outside of Park City, Utah.
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Although heli-skiing
is not without risks and hazards, whether at our heliport, in the helicopter,
or in the backcountry every effort is made to protect
you from natural dangers, and to minimize the consequences of accidents.
Tyson
Bradley has carved turns as high as 23,000 feet and
led expeditions to Alaska, Asia, and South America. With his wife Julie Faure
he operates Exum - Utah, a guiding company. While not skiing and guiding Tyson
is also a freelance writer.
He has completed two editions of the book Backcountry Skiing. He
lives
in Salt Lake City with his wife and two children.
Ryan
Carlson has been a member of the Snowbird Ski Patrol
since 1994. Ryan began guiding with WPG in 1998 and has now become
a part of their full time guide staff. He has been guiding in Alaska since
2000 during the spring. Originally from California, he lives
in Salt
Lake
City with his wife and their son.
Michael "Ole" Olson moved
to Utah in 1978 and joined the Alta Ski Patrol. He joined the full time
staff of WPG in 1985. Ole has been a member of many expeditions around
the world including a number in Nepal, Alaska, Greenland, and South America.
One of the lead guides for WPG, Ole is originally from Montana and now
makes Salt Lake City, Utah his home.
Kevin
O'Rourke has been working for WPG since 1992. Kevin began his
education in snow safety by working with the Alta Ski Patrol. In addition
to being the General Manager and a lead guide at WPG, Kevin directs
our Greenland Heli-skiing Program. He has skied throughout the US and
in Alaska, Greenland, New Zealand, and Nepal on numerous ski expeditions.
Originally form New York, Kevin resides in Alta, Utah when not traveling. 
Spencer
Wheatley began his career guiding climbers and ski mountaineers on California's Mr. Shasta and backcountry skiers in the Wasatch for Exum Utah. Spencer's love for steep skiing eventually led him to spend winters guideing heli skiing in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska. While working in Valdez, he won the World Extreme Skiing Championships in 2000. He has skied in the Warren movies Journey and Cold Fusion. Skiing has taken Spencer on expeditions as far away as Iran, British Columbia, New Zealand, Europe and Alaska. Spencer grew up ski racing in Utah for Snowbasin Ski Resort, near Ogden. He moved to Salt Lake at 17 to work at Alta and attend the University of Utah where he received a degreee in Commercial Recreation. Spencer also write freelance articles and tests products for ski magazines. He now lives year round in Salt Lake City.