Thank you for your friendly comment, Martin! Indeed our packs were full with chocolate fuel :)
Actually I forgot to give account in the report about the food that is available at the huts. Both of them (Rysy and Five Lakes) offer a good selection of foods at reasonable price (you're up in the mountains, and for the Rysy hut everything is brought up by the sherpa method).
No bullshit about your lack of talent, you're a great writer and that's one hell of a great story! Sorry about the rains, the Tatras are notorious for them. Brings back good memories when I hiked Orla Perć as a teenager with my dad. Will look at the pics more carefully tomorrow.
Special characters you can correct - just copy and paste.
Čertovica
Žabie Plesá
Bašty
Ťažký štít
Mały Kozi Wierch
Zmarzła Przełączka Wyżnia
Zmarzła Przełęcz
Kozia Przełęcz
Kozia Przełęcz Wyżnia
Krzyżne
Przełączka nad Buczynową
Zmarzły Staw
...I think that's it :)
Thanks for the hearthy words and the spec chars! Today I fixed them. You have a couple of years advantage having hiked OP as a teenager - we're approaching 30 and still haven't managed to do it all the way :)
My wife and I wanted to do this route about 15 years ago. We had been told to expect late August / early September to be warm and sunny, but there was about 30cm of snow!! Still, the food in Zakopane was good!
There have been further fatalities in the past few days on Orla Perc: on 21/Oct a Slovak tourist fell at Zawrat pass (just like the Hungarian woman). A man from Spain has been found dead last week at Kozia Przelecz. A 26-year old Polish man survived two nights at the same place before the rescue team found him, he was unable to move because of injury.
First-hand info in Hungarian:
http://www.magas-tatra.hu/node/205#comments
(summary: they were below Zawrat pass, the mountain provided perfect wind shelter, the girl was 3rd in a row for passing an icy snowpatch when she slipped and unsuccessfully tried to stop herself with ice axe and fell down behind an edge - the reason of death was a bad head hit)
Thanks for a wonderful article. Brings back some very old memories of 1966 and 1968 month long trips to the Slovak side of the range. Thanks for writing it and don't let this be your last.
BTW Very funny episode with the border police. Had a similar one near Rysy in July of 1968, but that one resulted in 3 days of Polish jail.
vancouver islander - Apr 25, 2008 12:39 pm - Voted 10/10
Nice, interesting report......about an area that is a complete unknown to me. Lovely pictures too. Learning about such things is, perhaps, SP's greatest benefit to its members.
Your packs must have been heavy with all the chocolate required to celebrate each summit.
Everyone has had their experiences with "bulldozer guys". Glad you survived yours.
Thanks so much for posting.
Cheers,
Martin
peterbud - Apr 27, 2008 8:25 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Nice, interesting report...Thank you for your friendly comment, Martin! Indeed our packs were full with chocolate fuel :)
Actually I forgot to give account in the report about the food that is available at the huts. Both of them (Rysy and Five Lakes) offer a good selection of foods at reasonable price (you're up in the mountains, and for the Rysy hut everything is brought up by the sherpa method).
Cheers, Peter
kamil - Apr 25, 2008 6:13 pm - Voted 10/10
Hej Piotrek, bratanku!No bullshit about your lack of talent, you're a great writer and that's one hell of a great story! Sorry about the rains, the Tatras are notorious for them. Brings back good memories when I hiked Orla Perć as a teenager with my dad. Will look at the pics more carefully tomorrow.
Special characters you can correct - just copy and paste.
Čertovica
Žabie Plesá
Bašty
Ťažký štít
Mały Kozi Wierch
Zmarzła Przełączka Wyżnia
Zmarzła Przełęcz
Kozia Przełęcz
Kozia Przełęcz Wyżnia
Krzyżne
Przełączka nad Buczynową
Zmarzły Staw
...I think that's it :)
pzdr
kamil
peterbud - Apr 27, 2008 9:08 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Hej Piotrek, bratanku!Czesc Kamil!
Thanks for the hearthy words and the spec chars! Today I fixed them. You have a couple of years advantage having hiked OP as a teenager - we're approaching 30 and still haven't managed to do it all the way :)
Pozdraw, Peter
Mountainfriend - Apr 29, 2008 6:43 am - Voted 10/10
Wow...good mountain trip!Definitively High Tatras are great mountains!!!
Hmm August... the next trip report is in Brazil???? kkkkkkkkkkk
Cheers my friend!
peterbud - Apr 29, 2008 8:14 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Wow...good mountain trip!:D haha, that's right! You see Marcelo, it takes a bit long for me to write trip reports, but better later than never :) Cheers!
Nigel Lewis - May 10, 2008 5:06 am - Voted 10/10
SNOW!!My wife and I wanted to do this route about 15 years ago. We had been told to expect late August / early September to be warm and sunny, but there was about 30cm of snow!! Still, the food in Zakopane was good!
N
peterbud - May 13, 2008 2:43 am - Hasn't voted
Re: SNOW!!Uh, sorry about that. I wouldn't give much chance for snow in that time of year, either... At least not that much. Haven't you tried again since then?
Nigel Lewis - May 13, 2008 4:22 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: SNOW!!Haven't tried again, .... yet!
I will definitely go back there one day though!
N
Nanuls - May 13, 2008 5:47 pm - Voted 10/10
Great report!great report Peter, and what a beautiful area!
Cheers
Dan
peterbud - May 14, 2008 3:03 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Great report!Thanks, Dan!
dmiki - Nov 2, 2008 5:42 pm - Hasn't voted
:((((31-year old Hungarian woman falls to her death in strong winds
http://index.hu/politika/bulvar/lengyeltatra/
peterbud - Nov 3, 2008 3:08 am - Hasn't voted
Re: :((((Sad news, I have just read it a few minutes ago. R.I.P.
peterbud - Nov 3, 2008 3:22 am - Hasn't voted
Re: :((((There have been further fatalities in the past few days on Orla Perc: on 21/Oct a Slovak tourist fell at Zawrat pass (just like the Hungarian woman). A man from Spain has been found dead last week at Kozia Przelecz. A 26-year old Polish man survived two nights at the same place before the rescue team found him, he was unable to move because of injury.
peterbud - Nov 7, 2008 8:17 am - Hasn't voted
Re: :((((First-hand info in Hungarian:
http://www.magas-tatra.hu/node/205#comments
(summary: they were below Zawrat pass, the mountain provided perfect wind shelter, the girl was 3rd in a row for passing an icy snowpatch when she slipped and unsuccessfully tried to stop herself with ice axe and fell down behind an edge - the reason of death was a bad head hit)
yatsek - Feb 13, 2010 5:07 pm - Voted 10/10
Nice read indeed :)Very good photos - that's no surprise. What's more, it's really well written.
peterbud - Feb 15, 2010 3:49 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Nice read indeed :)Thanks, Jacek. Such words from a Pole who's professional in English have double weight :)
yatsek - Feb 15, 2010 9:25 am - Voted 10/10
Re: Nice read indeed :)What is more, I'm a scrambler by vocation. :)
asmrz - Jan 16, 2015 11:38 am - Voted 10/10
Great readThanks for a wonderful article. Brings back some very old memories of 1966 and 1968 month long trips to the Slovak side of the range. Thanks for writing it and don't let this be your last.
BTW Very funny episode with the border police. Had a similar one near Rysy in July of 1968, but that one resulted in 3 days of Polish jail.
Cheers, Alois.
peterbud - Feb 19, 2015 6:56 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Great readThanks for the feedback! The atmosphere in the summer of 1968 must have been a "bit" different...