I like every season for a different reason.Summer for swimmin and caving.Both places are cooler then the surrounding areas. I like fall because it's beautiful and the most enjoyable weather for a regular walk and if cool bushwacking.Winter is best for bushwacking and stone hunting. Your not overloaded with green everywhere and can actually see past your nose.Spring is best for canoeing/kayaking.Water is up and the bugs ain't out yet and the new spring green is very pretty after 5 months of grey and brown . Downsides,Spring...mud especially in the mountains.Summer,heat and bugs,every pest imaginable. Fall no downside except residual chiggers early on from summer excepting of course now you sharing the woods with hunters,some are friendly,some are not. Winter,sometimes it's so cold you can't work your gps buttons without warming your hands up first and of course hunting season is full swing now. I really don't mind bumping into hunters as long as I"m not trespassing but I do feel some times they resent me bumping into them. They often seem to plant their stands right over stones and then get miffed when I crawl up to the stone nose to the ground,up is the last place I"m looking at times like these.