3 Winter Getaways:Head outside this season to embrace your inner snow angel

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The central cascades, parts of which often get more than 435 inchesof annual snowfall, are the perfect blank canvas for whatever winter tracks you'd like to make. "Sno-Parks"—parking lots plowed by the state—provide access to groomed trails for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing or snowmobiling. Some of the trails passthrough the 48,000 acres The Nature Conservancy acquired in 2014 to connect protected forestlands. Try your hand (warmly gloved, of course) at ice fishing on Fish Lake in Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, dogsledding at Crystal Springs or ice climbingin the Snoqualmie Pass area. Stay locally in Cle Elum or Roslyn, which served as a set for the television series Northern Exposure.