My first Carpathians, first mountains, first winter trip

"The fiesta was going on, and it lasted seven days." Ernest Hemingway. Well, actually, seven days - that's counting the time spent getting to know Ivano-Frankivsk and the travel itself. Next... How does it go in the report guidelines: "Your expectations"? Gentlemen, don't you think that expecting something specific when heading to the mountains for the first time in your life, and in winter at that - is the height of presumption?