The area has cold, moist winters and hot dry summers. Average annual precipitation, most of which falls as snow, increases with elevation. As little as ten inches of precipitation falls in lower valleys and as much as forty inches occurs at the highest elevations. Wide temperature extremes exist, with summer temperatures at lower elevations exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit and winter temperatures at higher elevations falling to less than 40 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.

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