Small hiking and mountaineering tours in Europe.
The Dolomites mountain range1 is a place I’ve never visited before, though the region is not really far off from my home in Bavaria: with the Eurocity connection about four hours from Munich to Bolzano, and about five and a half hours to Verona.
As someone who hiked and climbed almost exclusively in the High Tatras in Slovakia in the last two years, the difference in appearance of … read more
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
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
