Description
Hiking tour from Starý Smokovec (1010 meters AMSL) to Východná Vysoká (2429 meters AMSL) via Sliezsky dom hotel.
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Map, Topography
Notes and recommendations
Even with snow on the trail hardly a technical climb.… read more
Tag Archives: Slovakia
High Tatras: Kriváň, Rysy, Štrbské pleso
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Kriváň, October 1
Predné Solisko, October 2
Rysy, October 3
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 Železnice (TEŽ), was my actual starting point for exploring the valleys … read more
High Tatras: Východná Vysoká, Obrovský vodopád
Note
The following text is a follow-up of this blog-post.
Východná Vysoká, August 15
I set off at the green marked trailhead at the train station in Tatranská Polianka (1005 meters AMSL, i.e. Above Mean Sea Level; every height stated below is AMSL), a village with about two hundred inhabitants located three kilometers west of Starý Smokovec.
Excluding breaks, it took me four hours to ascend … read more