Best of luck, Macedonia is same-but-different. The only thing intimidating to me ( I live in a very wet place) was that the mountains are fairly dry, so bring more drinking water than you're used to.
Not sure how used you are to mountains, but expect to dress a lot lighter than you would going after whitetails in a field. Despite the snow/ ice, I was only wearing a thin windbreaker over my wool baselayer and it was more than enough.