Yosemite!

if I could go anywhere of the type around that time, it would be the Southern Rockies

I'll go wherever the other guys want to. I think they've seen the famous sights when they were there before, so I think that's why they want to go into the backcountry. I figure at some point I'll be back there with my wife/family to see the touristy stuff, but the chances to get out in the middle of BFE seem to get harder and harder with each passing year. (But if I do this, that means I can't backpack in the Presidential range this winter, and getting out to the West Coast is such a bigger trip than staying in EST.)

I really want to go. I'm horribly envious that you lived there M. White.