"Mention skiing the Wallowas and the response might be hushed silences from die-hard skiers or, more likely … crickets. But therein lies the appeal of this remote, off-the-radar mountain range rising from the no-man’s-land of eastern Oregon. The Wallowas are somewhat of an anomaly: Though they’re geographically closer to the Cascades, they more closely resemble the Rockies with their dry, superlight snowpack and steep, jagged peaks."