For me, I'd ride a road bike for cold without snow, and a mountain bike for when it snows. Hard pack and fresh snow are pretty easy on a mountain bike. The days

For me, I'd ride a road bike for cold without snow, and a mountain bike for when it snows. Hard pack and fresh snow are pretty easy on a mountain bike. The days I hated were the ones where we had 6inches to a foot of snow and people had half a day to walk on it so it'd be half packed down.