I'll be happy to post that I've kind of grown to like riding in the snow. Knobs are a necessary (studs only do good on ice) and your riding technique is critical. Once you get accustomed to having either end randomly sliding sideways and learning that if you keep the front wheel pointed about where you want to go it will almost always hook up again as long as you're not doing anything too silly. Takes a lot of practice but it is satisfying to be able to recover from the back or the front tire slipping.