Originally Posted by
12bar
I can handle the cold and rain and would look forward to the terrain but I am a little worried about the cloudy and grey for extended periods of time
My personal experience is that this bothers some people a little, some people a lot.
One solution is to get out of the lowland drizzle and go up into the mountains and enjoy the snow during the winter. If it's raining in town (Seattle), that means it's snowy up in the mountains.
I found that when I moved here that going up into the mountains for some snow-shoeing or skiing makes winter much more bearable....also, if you go east of the mountains, it will be clearer and snowier.