Small hiking and mountaineering tours in Europe.
A solitary outdoor tour in a high altitude environment can be a liberating and meditative experience.
It is a calculated risk though, so it goes without saying that tours in wintry and cold conditions in remote mountain areas demand thorough 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.
Socializing, making friends and finding great comradery was and of course still is for me the most enjoyable aspect of any several-day outdoor adventure in a high altitude mountain area.
One such small adventure that offers just that is hiking across the Low Tatras main ridge in Slovakia, even in fine weather a challenging mountain tour that usually takes up five days.
Javorová dolina (“Maple valley”) is an elongated valley in the north-eastern part of the High Tatras mountain range in Slovakia.
The valley is accessible for the general visitor during the summer season only (June 15 to October 31), higher altitude areas in the Tatranský národný park (TANAP) have a winter closure time.
A challenging mountain tour that takes a whole day is crossing Javorová dolina, traverse the Sedlo sedielko … read more
