How is Russia btw?

Spring finally. All that damned show finally began to melt. :) Life is going, lot of new SciFi looking Chineese cars on roads, Easter soon, sowing season coming, roads covered with pits after winter so there will be road repair traffic jams season, and so on, as usual. :)

I lowkey wanna visit one of these days and see the mountains.

You need Ural in summer, Or Altai in summer. Nicest wildest places. Find a guide, if you don't speak Russian and want to see really wild nature. Not everyody know English in distant places.