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+California! Sierras!
+
+Highway passes
+- I-80 Donner Pass / Truckee (north Taho)
+- (a few more around Tahoe)
+- SR-88
+- SR-4 (closed in winter)
+- SR-108 (closed in winter)
+- SR-120 (yosemite to lake mono) (closed in winter, Nov to May)
+- (huge stretch with no roads through)
+- SR-178
+
+Big National Parks
+- Yosemite Valley: ~3.5hr no traffic
+ => side roads closed Nov to May
+ => backcountry cabin is first-come-first-served Dec to March
+ => https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/fulltrailheads.htm
+- Kings Canyon: 4-5hr
+- Sequoia: 4.5rh
+
+"East" Sierras
+- Big Pine Lakes: 6.5 hour drive via HW 120
+
+
+Excellent overview map: http://www.highsierratrails.com/northern_sierra_trails.html
+
+~3.5 hour drive to Yosemite Valley
+
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+-------------------------
+
+Mt Adams!
+Mt Saint Helens! (snow)
+
+Training/Prep:
+- Camp Muir (Rainier)
+- Hurrican Ridge?
+- mt stuart (scramble; cascadian couloir)
+- cashmere
+ https://www.summitpost.org/victoria-s-secret-nw-face/936099
+- enchantments in winter?
+
+
+Also big/interesting:
+- second sister
+- shasta (CA)
+- whitney (CA)
+- rainier
+- baker