Sounds like there are definitely a few people around. I think I'll definitely be going up North on a few weekends so I'll check out this site for that. I would also like to go south to Wallowa's a few times this winter/spring as well the local favorite Freezeout ridge so local partners would be preferable for those trips. Am I missing any big locations that are within 2 hour drive? Anyway I really hope it snows enough for my backyard mountain(Moscow) to be dawn patrolable, but I know that's a long shot, I'm not sure how much snow it gets. If it happens I could get a lot of days in this season.
I'll definitely send MountainManiac a pm once we get closer to the season.