Category Archives: Hiking and Mountaineering

Small hiking and mountaineering tours in Europe.

Winter hike on the GR20

A solitary outdoor tour in a rough higher altitude environment can be a liberating and meditative experience.

It is a calculated risk though, so it goes without saying that tours in wintry conditions in remote mountain areas demand a great deal of careful preparation.

There will no one be around when problems arise, and you’ll lack the often very much needed morale support from your fellow hikers.

Impressions of

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Traversing Sedlo prielom (High Tatras)

Description

Hiking tours (in summer and autumn) from the Zbojnícka chata (1960 meters AMSL) to Sedlo prielom (Polish: Rohatka, 2290 meters AMSL).

Descent to Poľský hrebeň and from there to Sliezsky dom (1670 meters AMSL), with the finishing point Starý Smokovec (1010 meters).

Photos and video

Autumn 2023

Summer 2022
Autumn 2021

Map, Topography

Notes and recommendations

It is also possible and probably more convenient to traverse the … read more