Is there a service that helicopters campers into remote Sierra lakes so you...

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...don't have to hike in for days? I just heard a bunch of stories from old backpackers about how there are an incredible amount of remote, pristine lakes in the Sierras that offer some of the best fishing to be had, but you have to backpack in and many of them are a mutli-day journey. I don't have the time or the atheleticism to make such a hike, I'd rather just pay a lot of money and be dropped off in the middle of nowhere via helicopter and have them pick me up 3 days later. Does such a thing exist?
fair points, but let me explain further-- most of the traditional camping accessibly by weekend warriors in minivans is overcrowded and somewhat despoiled. I'd like to go to some of these REAL places where no one else can get to, and I agree, I neither want a bunch of weekend warriors turning these places into tourist sites, but there are a variety or legitimate reasons that a person cannot EVER get there by backpacking in. People can have health problems that make them unable to carry a 60 pound pack for 2 days on end. I can imagine a service, much like the river rafting guided tours I have done, that are one for die hard outdoor types with a lot of money to spend, where they are super strict about the zero footprint and all that stuff. It doesn't have to be like you guys are characterizing it as. The have guided tours to remote areas, don' them have them where someone with a bad knee can still access?
 
You want to helicopter in to lakes instead of hiking?

Where is your sense of adventure? Better stay home.
 
The problem with the question is where the fish are and how to get there. The Sierra is predominately wilderness and the forest service frowns on the use of helicopters to taxi folks in and out of there. However I know you can heli ski from these area's and bringing in a camper fisherman would not be much different. Any way most folk who are cash filled and body weak hire an outfitter and ride into the wilderness via horse back. It takes a little longer but price wise there almost the same. Going a lot slower would be better anyhow so you can take in the scenery. here is a link to get you started.

http://www.mammothpack.com/
 
at least in washington state.....helecopters my fly over wilderness areas and some are allowed to log
but they are not allowed to land or drop off anything............
 
God I hope not! Thats all we need are weekend warriors and whittlin` schlubs taking helicopters into the backcountry. What next....escalators up 14`ers? Paved trails cutting through the wilderness? Maybe we`ll put some trout in a barrel for you to fly fish for...heck lets make it legal to fish with dynamite.

Thats what makes those pristine lakes so much better...its too far away fro the everyday person to get to, theres no fishing line discarded on the shores or beer bottles/cans littering the shores.
 
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