It doesn't exactly snow there, but... Seattle? I mean, you don't GET any more National Park/wilderness(biggest wilderness area in the US)local wolves/pine trees than that.

And as for organized crime? Boy howdy. Granted a ton of it is Chinese, but Seattle was an underworld paradise. Still has the highest per-capita rate of unexplained disappearances in the country.


.....Actually, I was up there myself researching a potential WW book a number of years ago, before the primary author got ganked to military duty in Afghanistan.