But if you're going to do that in the winter, make sure you take the right road.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kim#The_Kims_become_snowb...

It's pretty easy to stick with 199 through Grants Pass, and in reality, the coast route is probably less likely to get snow than I5, which has a number of reasonably high passes near the Oregon border. The road those guys took was just asking for trouble at that time of year:-/

Damn that sucks. I was expecting to read a Donner party-like situation but this was 2006!