The pluses of summer in the mountains (there are many, get ready!):
1. There is no heat that makes you want to melt.
While your friends are frying on the beach and sticking together from the air conditioners, you are in a cozy sweater against the backdrop of spruce forests. In the mountains in the summer it is cool, cheerful and pleasant. Even if it's +25 during the day, in the evening you'll have a blanket, tea, and stars. 10/10 romance.
2. The view from the window is like a postcard.
Wake up to the singing of birds, look out and see clouds under your feet, goats on the slope, and some unreal mountains with soft morning light. This is not a filter. This is your life. And yes, it's absolutely free.
3. No crowds of tourists with speakers.
You only hear the wind, bells, and your own thoughts. Sometimes a flock of sheep. Sometimes your own heavy breathing up the mountain (but more on that later).
4. Physical fitness is a bonus.
No exercise machines! Climbing up the mountain is replaced by a stepper, cardio, and, possibly, a therapist. After the third climb, you begin to perceive the difficulties of life philosophically.
5. Incredible sunsets.
Mountains can surprise. A sunset in the mountains is always a spectacle. The clouds are colored, the sky is on fire, and you sit like a child in the front row - with your mouth open and your nose slightly peeled.
Cons (or maybe not cons at all?):
1. The phrase "just an easy path" is a lie.
If you were told that the route is "not difficult" - get ready for a 3-hour climb up the slope, where your legs negotiate an escape. Guides are optimists, for whom "a little up" is Tibet in terms of slope.
2. No connection. And it hurts... sometimes.
Everything is fine while you enjoy the switched off phone. But when you want to order food / call a taxi / google "what herbs can you eat to survive" - ​​you realize that you and your Wi-Fi are in different worlds.
3. Mosquitoes with the wings of mountain dragons.
Why they are so angry at an altitude of 1000+ meters is a mystery. But the fact is: even the smallest one will bite. And always in an inconvenient place - on the ankle, which you will then scratch on a bush.
4. Predictably unpredictable weather.
Sun in the morning, fog by lunchtime, hail in the evening. The forecast does not work, an umbrella is useless, only the philosophy "As it goes, so be it" saves.
So are there any downsides? Or are these just "features"?
Depends on how you look at it.
If you want perfect photos, cocktails and lying still - the mountains are not for you.
But if you want to live, feel, breathe, walk, be surprised, get tired and fall in love with the world again - then the mountains are a must for you.
Summer in the mountains is not just a vacation. It is an experience.
Where you lose whims, sunscreen and makeup,
but find: breath, silence and your real smile.