Updated on January 5, 2021 at 10:10 pm
Beihua Steven Guo
IF THE WORDS HIGH COUNTRY . send you instantly into a deep and satisfying daydream, a reverie that involves the crunching of snow underfoot and the wind whistling through trees and storm clouds building atop far-off granite peaks, you re in good, nature-loving country in California. But finding your way to such wonderfully remote places in the heart of January isn t quite as instant as sweetly spinning out into a quickly imagined daydream. Helping us bridge that gap, though, between the adventures of our imagination and what s really happening in some of the way-up-there spots of the Sierra Nevada?