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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
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