Project quite likely: Day 4

After getting a good night’s rest at PTTK Murowaniec, our next stop was PTTK Roztoki, and then it was off to Dolina Pięciu Stawów Polskich (The Valley of Five Polish Ponds), which is a couple of valleys to the east of where we were. We had a long hike ahead of us, and unfortunately, it was our first day of real rain. We made our way through the forests and valleys, which offered a very different perspective of the mountains compared to previous days.

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Project quite likely: Day 3

Day three and once again, snow putting our original plans to rest, however we still had an achievable aim, finding a peak >2000m which wasn’t covered in snow. So we turned our attention to Dolina Gąsienicowa, specifically Kościelec (‘Caterpillar valley’ and ‘the church’)…

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Project quite likely: Day 2

The first full day of the trip, and we planned on this being a big one. This would be the day we set out to head up Rysy (via Morskie Oko), the highest peak in Poland, something that’s been on my bucket list since I first saw it in person 10 years ago. However as they often do, things did not go to plan…

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