On Saturday we decided to go hiking again. I didn’t want to break any records this time because I felt that our previous hike was a bit too long (26km). I picked a nice route through Samotnia and Śnieżka, because my son had never been there before.
We started at the Wang church around 11a.m. There are still a lot of stalls around the place so we spent some time window shopping.
The beginning is always difficult in our case so it was soon time for a snack.
… and mushrooms.
As we were approaching Samotnia, where we had planned our lunch, it was getting a bit chilly but by then we had already warmed up.
Around 1p.m we arrived at Samotnia. It was beautiful.
Unfortunately the place was packed inside so we decided to have lunch at Strzecha Akademicka instead.
Coke and good food always puts us in a good mood.
By the time we got to Dom Śląski, the landscape had changed a bit… it was starting to get windy and a bit cold, too.
Despite heavy wind and slippery conditions we decided to climb Śnieżka anyway. It was a good decision and around 3:30p.m we were at the top.
The views were beautiful 🙂
As we were getting back to Dom Śląski, we decided to take a brief stop to take some photos. We were under the clouds now so we could actually see the valley.
We were back at Karpacz around 7p.m but not before finding some mushrooms. It was good we took our headlights 🙂
It was awesome 🙂
On the technical side we did 16km in 8 hours, so it was a solid pace considering the conditions, extra time for lunch, snacks, coffee, photos and mushrooms. Also, I wanted to spend some time at the peak to find out how Olek will react to walking in the dark. He had a bad fall while we were going downhill from Dom Śląski (red path was super slippery) and for a moment there I thought that might be the end of our trip but he recovered very quickly. Still, we decided to pick a different path (black one) because it was less steep and I didn’t want to risk another accident.
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