Three adventurous skiing trips

A helicopter lodge in Sweden, a ghost town in Georgia and an Arctic cruise. 

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At Niehku, the only limits are the size of the fuel tank
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At Niehku, a new 14-bedroom heli-lodge, everything is geared towards skiing, says Toby Skinner in Cond Nast Traveller. It was built out of a disused railway roundhouse and sits on the edge of Riksgrnsen, a cluster of red-barn buildings 200 kilometres inside the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden. At nine in the morning, the helicopters are fired up, each shared between groups of four or five. Unlike in the heavily regulated Alps, here it is a relative free-for-all. "I ride almost as much powder in a few days as I have in the rest of my life."

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