Alaska Information?

My wife and I are likely relocating to either the kenai penninsula or the palmer area.  I have found some info on the web about riding, but information seems scarce.  My wife and I splitboard and would be willing to use snowmobiles to access terrain for riding. I imagine we would be going to alyeska as well.  Does anyone have any info they can share?  How is turnagain pass?  Are there other areas? How is hatchers pass?  It seems most of the terrain is alpine/ above treeline, is there any good riding on low visibility days? Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks

do some searching on telemarktips.com.....theres quite a few Alaskans who post on there.  Before Becky and I headed up to AK earlier this month for vacation I chatted with a couple of them and got some great information on where to ski.

Regarding Turnagain-  the south side of the highway (meaning all the north facing slopes) is for non-motorized recreation...I really liked this cause it means the most easily accessed powder is only for those who don't have snowmachines.  Snowmachiners get the opposite side of the highway and there isn't any shortage of terrain over there.  Sounds like its rather commons for folks to snowmobile from Turnagain Pass off to some better terrain and then snomo-assist yoyo ski all over the place.  There are a few areas up there that have tree skiing, so there is mid-winter low visibility terrain to hit, but for the most part the stuff at the top of Turnagain Pass is treeless.

PM me your email address and I can send you the info and marked up map I have for Turnagain.

We didn't go to Hatcher Pass...but from what I gathered it doesn't get nearly as much snow at the stuff closer to the tidewater and its far enough inland that it can be plauged with a continental type snowpack (depth hoar, yuck).

Theres also a lot of easily accessed backcountry terrain immediately south of Anchorage in the foothills of the Chugach....Powerline Pass, FlatTop, etc.

Theres some neat looking terrain in the immediate vicinity of Girdwood/Alyeska....do a search for Crow Pass or the Eklutkna traverse.

If you've got multiple days to spend somewhere...drive the 5-6 hours to Thompson Pass just outside of Valdez....the roadside terrain is amazing, but you do have to share it with snowmobilers and helicopters.  Matt Kinney recently published a guidebook for the Thompson Pass/Valdez area.

If you've got access to a snowmobile, then you've got tons of options in Alaska.     If you've got a plane and a snowmobile...then you're really set     (we actually saw two airplanes parked on a glacier in the middle of the Alaska Range and they'd been flown in with snowmobiles attached...somehow...and they were snowmo-assist yoyo skiing...don't think one would see that anywhere but in Alaska)

Thanks Pete A PM sent.