Category Archives: Hiking and Mountaineering

Small hiking and mountaineering tours in Europe.

Ascent to Skrajny Granat (High Tatras)

Description

Hiking tour around Czarny Staw Gąsienicowy and ascending Skrajny Granat (2228 meters AMSL).

Skrajny Granat is a mountain in the Polish part of the High Tatras (Tatry Wysokie) mountain range. It has to be passed in order to complete the Orla Perć trail.

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No technical challenges along the yellow marked trail up to Skrajny Granat, and only one short section with … read more

Ascent to Kozi Wierch (High Tatras)

Description

Hiking and climbing tour from Kuźnice (1011 meters AMSL) to Kozi Wierch (2291 meters AMSL) on parts of the Orla Perć (“Eagle’s Path”), namely the section between Kozia Przełęcz and Przełączka nad Dolinką Buczynową.

Kozi Wierch is a mountain in the Polish part of the High Tatras (Tatry Wysokie) mountain range, and Orla Perć has the reputation being the hardest marked mountain tour in the High Tatras.… read more

Ascent to Wilde Kreuzspitze (Zillertaler Alpen)

The Wilde Kreuzspitze is a comparatively easy to ascend 3000 meters peak close to the town of Sterzing (Italian: Vipiteno) in South Tyrol, Italy.

This mountain is 3135 meters AMSL high, more exactly, and consists of two peaks, lying about one hundred and fifty meters apart.

Many hikers won’t proceed to the northern peak after touching the summit cross on the nine meters shorter southern peak however, for there are … read more