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How long has it been since he was over White? It's been much improved over the years.
it has been years. He is very much a gloom and doom. Always using words like: can't or won't or never work or never happen. I do stuff just to prove him wrong he makes me so angry at times. Mr. Downer.
I am still planning on trying.
I am maybe not the best person to ask about White Pass, because for me it was as much a regular route as the one between here and Copalis: we lived in Eatonville, and then Yelm, and then Lacey, and my mother's favorite sister lived in Tieton. And we always went via Elbe, so the bad news curves at La Grande were the worst part of the trip (they're slightly improved these days, too, but still my most disliked piece of road near here) and the steep bits just west of the summit weren't so bad, really, although they do contain a lot of down. My daughter's "other mother" in Montana got on US 12 to go to Westport every summer of her youth, and went over Lolo and White, and feels the same as I do about White: steep, some curves, but really worth it.
The other, important, thing about White in winter is that unless Snoqualamie is closed for a whole day it's mostly free of amatuer snow drivers and there are not a whole lot of semi trucks throwing slush on your windshield. Less traffic over-all. The couple of times I took White instead of Snoqualamie when I was at WSU I was especially struck by the difference, because White did not contain the hoards of WSU students going to Seattle too fast and insufficiently sober (I hear the last thing has vastly improved; I can only hope). Traffic is mostly skiers, either really serious ones or ones from close-in who drive White all the time. As you said otherwhere, if you know how to drive in the snow, you have to worry about the other drivers: White has fewer in general, and a much smaller fraction of those are inexperienced snow drivers.
And I'm the disaster meister in my family so there is that.
Feel like I been shot at and missed sh^* at and hit.
