You are standing on top of a jagged, snow-encrusted peak with heart-stopping views of the Alaskan Chugach range in every direction. The sky is bluebird and the morning sun glistens off the champagne powder energizing each snowflake with sparkles of light. Collectively, they summon you. A lone bald eagle soars overhead. Welcome to Alaska. Your life is about to change.

Your guide picks a line and drops in. Watching him rhythmically float through the ocean of fresh snow, a charge of adrenaline surges through your blood. The ache, the craving that has consumed you for so long has become almost unbearable as you anxiously await your turn. Suddenly, you're up. You have never been more ready for anything in your life.

You drop in. You dance. Space, time and form disappear and are replaced with a life-energy that can only be described as pure, real, CORE. This is life! This is peace. You pull up next to your guide with a breathless exuberance. Your heart is racing, your eyes are ablaze and your soul is alight.

At VHC, you ride regardless of the weather by using snowcats when helicopters can't fly. They are able to move from snowcat skiing to heliskiing within minutes as weather conditions dictate. They don't sit you in the lodge to wait it out, or send you river rafting on a day when the powder is falling - you came to ride. Access some of the best terrain in the Chugach right out your back door by hopping on their PistenBully snowcats and carving when guests at other operations are playing cards in their rooms.