a retired engineer who was elected in November 2009. The current mayor is Steve Botti. Climate Stanley has an alpine subarctic climate with very cold winters and warm summers with a very large diurnal temperature variation. Frosts can occur at any time of the year. There are on average 290 mornings in the year with frost (10 of them in July) and 60 nights that reach . The cold weather is due to Stanley's location in a protected valley that traps cold air from the surrounding mountains, creating strong temperature inversions. In latitude and elevation, Stanley's weather station is a near-perfect twin of the station at the summit of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. But although both are quite cold, their climates are very different. Culture and festivals During the summers, the Sawtooth Mountain Mamas Craft Fair is held in the field next to the grocery store, usually for about 2–3 days in July. A music festival, the Sawtooth Valley Gathering, also attracts a fair number of people. The National Hockey League considered Stanley as one potential host for the 2021 NHL Outdoors hockey games. Lake Tahoe was chosen as the ultimate location. In literature An imaginative 1980 novel by Gino Sky, Appaloosa Rising: the Legend of the Cowboy Buddha, is set in the Stanley area. A 2003 memoir by John Rember, Traplines: Coming Home to the Sawtooth Valley describes life in Stanley and its surrounding area, and the cultural changes connected to the establishment of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. In film The 1985 Clint Eastwood film Pale Rider was mainly shot in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area near Stanley. References Further reading External links - City of Stanley Stanley/Sawtooth Chamber of Commerce Cities in Custer County, Idaho Cities in Idaho