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Small hiking and mountaineering tours in Europe.

High Tatras: Bystrá lávka, Priečne sedlo

Introduction

After I’d visited the Slovakian part of the High Tatras1 mountain range two times in 2019 (August and October) I made further extensive tours this summer.

High Tatras (Vysoké Tatry)

The plan was this time to hike through some of the elongated valleys in the High Tatras and to negotiate two specific mountain saddles: Bystrá lávka and Priečne sedlo (colored orange on the map below).

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High Tatras: Kriváň, Rysy, Štrbské pleso

Table of contents

Kriváň, October 1
Predné Solisko, October 2
Rysy, October 3
Skalnaté pleso, October 4

Conclusion

Western High Tatras

As opposed to earlier tours this year (in August), the focus was this time on the western parts of the High Tatras (not to be confused with the “Western Tatras” or “Západné Tatry”, what is a different mountain range).

The town of Štrbské Pleso, the … read more

High Tatras: Východná Vysoká, Obrovský vodopád

Note

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High Tatras

I hiked in the central part of the High Tatras still and departed from the train station in Poprad-Tatry early in the morning by using the inexpensive meter-gauge railway connection (Tatranské Elektrické Železnice, TEŽ).

Východná Vysoká, August 15

I set off at the green marked trailhead at the train station in Tatranská Polianka (1005 meters AMSL, i.e. … read more