From Mt. Shasta and south into the Mayacamas, that area is filled with bizarre cults like I AM and Bhagwan followers. They’re buying up land and building barbed-wire compounds. When I lived in the area, I always carried a pump shotgun and strapped a magnum on my hip, in case I met feral dog packs or feral hippys. So not only are glaciers growing, so are the number of brainless robots as they migrate in.
That would be a great area to go into and write a book about these cults, but you’d probably disappear within weeks.