cascadetraveler - Mar 18, 2006 6:48 pm - Voted 10/10
Stunning! Beautiful!Are there glaciers in the high tatras?...Larry.
Tomek Lodowy - Jun 7, 2006 11:42 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Stunning! Beautiful!Hello ! I answer for Your question after 2,5 months ,sorry ! ;-)
No, there are no glaciers in High Tatras nowadays but there are many eternal snowfields ("snieznik") with the greatest one in Medena Kotlina under Lomnica Peak on Slovak side( 600 m long, up to 150 m wide,5.5 ha, changeable)...
The whole High Tatra landscape is typically alpine and post-glacial, granite, sharp ridges, high vertical walls, beatiful post-glacial lakes etc.
The altitude borderline for forming glaciers in Tatra Mountains is about 2300 m asl, so it may seem that there should exist some glaciers here now, but the problem is that there are no such huge spaces for snow to accumulate itself .
Thanks for Your vote, this is a winter classic view(march) of Czarny Staw(Black Lake) surroundings above Hala Gasienicowa, very popular alpine climbing area .
Greetings from Poland
Tomek
cascadetraveler - Jun 8, 2006 12:06 am - Voted 10/10
Hi tomek.Thank you for the information. The tatras are beautiful thank you for sharing.
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