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Lat/Lon:
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49.16936°N / 20.08285°E |
Season:
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Winter |
Time Required:
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Half a day |
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Overview
Winter ascent. We decided for combination of three routes from Kotlina Žabich plies. It's an easy winter climbing (depends on conditions). We had a lot of snow, few ice steps, so the whole climb was done on snow.
Western face of Kopky
Getting There
As we were accommodated at chata pod Rysmi, we descended to Kotlina Žabich plies, which is also easily accessible from Popradské pleso.
Kopky and chata pod Rysmi
Route Description
We decided for combination of three routes (according Puškáš 39, 43 and 41, see the main picture).We descended from chata pod Rysmi to Kotlina Žabich plies, where we went under western walls of Kopky to a big couloir near the Left rib of Malá Kopka leading to Predná Popradská lávka.
Kotlina Žabích plies
Couloir leading to Predná Popradská lávka
Under the rock barrier we turned left to a snow ramp
Through several ribs we climbed to the couloir falling from Zadná Popradská lávka and via few ice steps we climbed directly to Zadná Popradská lávka.
Couloir leading to Zadná Popradská lávka
Depending on condition it's recommended to use some protection in this last section. There are easy rock steps, but during our climb they were covered by thin layer of ice. From the saddle we followed the ridge to the summit of Veľká Kopka. From the summit we descended directly to the NE ridge and then rappelled down the northern face. After abseiling we continued through easy snow slopes to the ramp traversing northern face of Kopky, leading to Dolinka pod Váhou and under the walls of Dračie pazúriky back to chata pod Rysmi.