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Originally Posted by Guineas
Boise is great in the summer and has tons of mountain biking, but it snows and is cold in the winter. Bucket list is to get a vacation place in Idaho to escape Seattle occasionally.
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Boise gets little snow because it's high desert. It typically isn't that cold during winter, with average overnight lows in the low 20s. Late Dec and early Jan are usually the coldest periods, and it can get down to single digit or even negative temps, but this is usually for just a week or two.
For mountain biking I actually *want* below freezing overnight temps as this freezes trails that would otherwise be too muddy to ride. Biking on frozen trails is very nice and it's really pretty if there's a light dusting of snow or hoarfrost. I find biking in 10F-20F pleasant, not sure why people freak about it when it's perfectly normal to ski in the same conditions. I just wear light insulating layers and a wind blocking layer and gloves.
I mountain bike in Boise around 11 months of the year, and I fairly regularly mountain bike and alpine ski in the same day, all within ~15 miles of my house. It's only when the trails are muddy (wet and warm) that I don't mountain bike, which is usually a period of a few weeks in the fall and spring.