Small hiking and mountaineering tours in Europe.
The Dolomites are a mountain range I’d never visited before, though Northern Italy is not really far off from my hometown in Bavaria: with the Eurocity connection about four hours from Munich to Bolzano, or five and a half hours to Verona.
As someone who hiked and climbed (more or less) solely in the High Tatras in Slovakia in the last two years, the difference in appearances of those … read more
Tours in 2019 in the Slovakian part of the High Tatras1 mountain range: August, October.
This summer I wanted to hike through some of the elongated valleys in the High Tatras mountain range, and to climb two particular 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
