Crystal Mountain is 100 miles and over 2 hours away from OPs location. Would be a little quicker if Chinook Pass want closed.

You're doing a lot of backpedaling here, rather than just saying "my bad, I meant crystal Mountain". This whole thread is about My Rainier, and the Nisqually entrance. Paradise only means one thing in this context. What your trying to say here is the same as saying you're in DC and want to go to the white house, but you actually mean a white house in a different neighborhood somewhere.