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It wasn’t long before he became a guide and slope,”shesaid.“Ifyougetinjuredinthefield,it’sgreat
connected with Bernholz in Alaska. When I skied to have someone like Barney there. He really knows
with Barney, he worked closely with our helicopter his stuff.”
pilottofindthebestslopes-bothsteepandmellow TimAlbinson,wholivesintheBayArea,firstskied
- for our group. with Bernholtz in Crested Butte. The guide encour-

Christina Jeschke, a Milwaukee resident who aged him to visit Iceland, and Albinson and his wife,
usually skis at Jackson Hole in Wyoming, said she Heather, visited in the late winter.
met Barney several years ago while skiing in the “We didn’t quite know what to expect when we
Chilean Andes. He told her about Iceland’s Deplar landed in Reykjavik to start our adventure, but after
Farm and she put it on her bucket list. four days at Deplar we were hooked,” he said. “The
She said the lodge, the skiing and the moun- skiingwasawesome,andtherewerealotofothercool
tains more than met her expectations. things to do.
Jeschke said she became indebted to Barney “Where else can you spend all day skiing from
after a fall in Chile, which resulted in a spiral frac- rugged, snow-capped peaks straight down to the
ture of the fibula bone in her right leg. ocean, then après ski in a geothermal pool sipping lo-
“He ended up carrying me piggyback down the calcocktailsunderthenorthernlights?Theynailedit.”

IF YOU GO

Deplar Farm, (���) ���-����. Rates start at fly because of weather, other activities are
around $�,��� a day for a single occupancy offered, including fly fishing, horseback riding,
and $�,��� double occupancy. This includes cross-country skiing and surfing. That’s
semi-private guided heli-skiiing, gear, chef- right, surfing, with a thick wetsuit. The lodge is
prepared meals and airports transfers from open year-round, but the heli-ski season is
Akureyri. On days when the choppers can’t from March through May.

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