Features of hikes on Carpathians

On pages of this site I often write that hikes are simply and under force absolutely all. Has come to write time a little and about complexities.

Carpathians as area for hikes, are characterized first of all by the severe changeable climate.
The spring here begins in the end of May. Up to the middle of June on northern slopes the snow lays. Therefore the hike in Carpathians for May holidays is the present(true) winter hike with all following consequences like danger shoda avalanches, a terrible cold at night and walkings on a deep snow in the afternoon. Carpathians in May approach(suit) only for tourists with experience of winter hikes.

Since the middle of June in Carpathians quite years(summer) hikes are possible(probable). In the afternoon warmly, it is possible to go in shorts and a T-short. At night with some stretch it is possible to manage demisizonnym a sleeping bag. However it is not necessary to relax - at any moment weather can deteriorate. Usually it occurs(happens) in second half of day. A picture literally such - every morning the sun, every evening a thunder-storm. Thunder-storms here are very dangerous. They are accompanied by a gale-force wind capable to break tent and numerous impacts of lightnings. Annually as a result of hit of lightnings in Carpathians people perish. At the slightest probability of a thunder-storm it is necessary to switch off mobile phones, to hide metal subjects and immediately to go down from a ridge in a valley. 

The sudden cold snaps accompanied by a snowfall and a hailstones are possible(probable). In such conditions your protection against a rain should be something become serious than a polyethylene cape. During a bad weather moral preparation has huge value also. The panic and loss of the control over self are inadmissible and in many respects are fatally dangerous.

Heavy weather conditions not a unique barrier on a way at brave subjugators of Carpathians :)
The way frequently is continuous obstacles. In a wood it is the trees tumbled down by a wind, at tops - shaky stone looses. Above a zone of a wood thrickets coniferous stlanika - steljushchejsja a mountain pine in height about one and a half meters begin. Footpaths in stlanike quickly grow and to make the way through them it is necessary putting weight of efforts. Except for that in stlanike it is impossible to go with equipment hanging on an external suspension bracket of a backpack. Otherwise the equipment risks to be lost or spoiled.