The forest-clad mountains of the Cascade Range rose around them. Because of the restricted view, it was easy to forget that Snoqualmie Pass was at an altitude of more than a thousand meters, and that the peaks surrounding them were up another thousand meters higher than that. Every now and again. Sly caught a glimpse of Mount Rainier rising like a giant, head and shoulders taller than the flanking mountains. Rainier had lost its actual peak in 2014 when the land had responded to Daniel Howling Coyote and his Great Ghost Dance, but it was still more than four thousand meters tall.