Pilot says they do this every day. He doesn’t understand why the media is suddenly making a big deal out of this one.
You know it is a regular occurrence when the chopper has a spike on the nose to stick into the snow to hold it steady.
That spike on the lower front is a wire cutter , so an electrical wire does not catch on the landing skids . There is also one up high on fuselage to keep wires out of the main Rotor .