Originally Posted by
lasauge
...but it's no more difficult to learn than mountain biking on trails that have loose dirt and exposed rocks, except for maybe 2 or 3 days each year in February and March when we get a kind of heavy, wet snow that turns into a terribly slick, mucky mixture that gets packed down into solid ruts when sand is added ...
It seems like most of our major snow events are with snow of the above variety, - fueled by moisture out of the Gulf of Mexico. The other kind of snow we get, the light fluffy stuff, comes from "clippers" and usually are under 5 inches. That kind of snow is pretty easy to ride through (and shovel).
Parts of Minnesota can get Lake Effect Snow from time to time, but not Minneapolis.