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.
It is, like many other areas in the Tatranský národný park (TANAP), accessible for the general visitor during the summer season only (June 15 to October 31).
A challenging mountain tour that takes a whole day is crossing the valley, traverse the Sedlo sedielko mountain pass (2376 meters), descend … read more
Kriváň and Rysy are well-known mountains in Slovakia in the western High Tatras.
Štrbské Pleso, the final station of the meter-gauge railway Tatranské Elektrické Železnice (TEŽ), is a convenient starting point to get to either peak in three to four hours.
Kriváň (2494 meters AMSL, i. e. Above Mean Sea Level; every height stated below is AMSL), sometimes called the “Slovak … read more
