Spring and fall are my favorites, but winter is nice as well. However, I live in southern California so don’t experience harsh cold weather. Being a photographer, I particularly like the short days in winter. If I want to capture both dawn & dusk light in one day, I don’t have to be out as long during winter.
Summer is the worst as far as I’m concerned and part of why I hate living in southern California. Here, summer lasts from June till November. The hot weather just goes on and on forever it seems. The heat prevents more hiking for me than the cold & snows of winter. If I want to hike in summer and valley temps are over 90F, I have to get up over 9,000 feet and sometimes that isn’t even enough to escape it. And as a cloud freak, the usually blank summer skies are unpleasing to me.
Someday I want to live where all four seasons are experienced. Spring and fall are too abbreviated in southern California.