Think those hot summer days or frigid winter nights are hard to bear?

The few benches, canopies and bus shelters offered minimal protection from the elements, a less than ideal situation given the area's frigid winter temperatures.

As their name suggests, the mountains experience frigid winters with occasional snowfalls during strong cold fronts.

Plants die down to their rhizomes in frigid winters and will maintain their leaves in cool winters during their dormancy period.