More skier days, 3rd operator proposed; Plan would up skier days to 2,600, incorporate ‘photographer days’

Resident Rob Goldberg said he stopped answering his phone following a proposal to more than double the Haines Borough’s heli-skiing skier-day limit to 2,600.

Goldberg, a member of a mayor-appointed heli-skiing work group, has worked on a revised helicopter skiing ordinance with borough manager Mark Earnest and borough attorney Brooks Chandler.

At Tuesday’s Haines Borough Assembly meeting, Goldberg explained his suggestion to increase skier days to 2,600, up from the current 1,200 for a season…