Put on your skis, you have no idea what you are missing. The rooster tail of powdered snow on take off and on Landings. The nice soft landings that snow gives you. The increase lift you get from the cold air. Once you start flying off snow, you don't want summer to arrive. look at the pics, the wide open area of a lake, who cares which way the wind is going. You can even fly when it is snowing, look closely at the pilot with snow on his hair. And when the snow starts to melt, nothing like a take off with the skis an inch under water and watch the lift off. Plus the blue, blue sky, you can see your plane for miles.