Travelling outside Germany.
Tours in 2019 in the Slovakian part of the High Tatras1 mountain range: August, October.
The plan was this summer to hike through some of the elongated valleys in the High Tatras mountain range and to negotiate two mountain saddles: Bystrá lávka and Priečne sedlo (colored orange on the map below).
1 as usual, I’ll use the English translation throughout the article; … read more
I am on around 1300 meters altitude and the snow is glittering in the early afternoon sun.
It is the beginning of December, but I am wearing a simple cotton T-shirt while standing at the roadside ditch, my hands on the handlebar of my MTB.
As I was climbing up this mountain half an hour ago, a jeep was passing me by, and the French driver asked me through the … read more
Kriváň, October 1
Predné Solisko, October 2
Rysy, October 3
Skalnaté pleso, October 4
As opposed to my summer tours, I steered for the western parts of the High Tatras mountain range (not to be confused with the “Western Tatras” or “Západné Tatry”) this autumn .
The town of Štrbské Pleso, the final station of the meter-gauge railway Tatranské Elektrické … read more
