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At an altitude of more than 640 meters (2,100 feet), this city on the Castilian plateau, Europe’s highest capital, is scorching in summer, when wilting residents flee for the coast or cooler northern climes, and freezing in winter, when many Madrileños bolt for the Sierra Nevada, just a couple hours south, to ski.
Pearce's New Mexico Place Names as late as 1790 the range was called Sierra Madre and has been called by its present name only since the early nineteenth century.
The hotline also has special funds to help grandparents who are caring for their grandchildren in Sacramento, Placer, Yuba, Sutter, Yolo, Nevada and Sierra counties.
The hardships the pioneers suffered in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Death Valley, and the Mojave Desert became the stuff of California legend, the most tragic being the fate of 87 pioneers who set out from Illinois in 1846.
Our journey begins with San Francisco and its nearby attractions and works its way down the coast to Los Angeles and San Diego before heading inland to the mountains and deserts of the Sierra Nevada and Death Valley.