The Beskids and the Jura

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Mountain Huts of the Żywiec Beskids: Rysianka, Hala Boracza, Rycerzowa and Other Bacówki

Mountain Huts of the Żywiec Beskids: Rysianka, Hala Boracza, Rycerzowa and Other Bacówki

In the Żywiec Beskids the huts stand on meadows and passes near the border with Slovakia. From Lipowska and Rysianka, through Hala Boracza and Miziowa, to Przegibek, Wielka Racza and the PTTK bacówki: who built them and what has survived.

Where the peak names come from: Klimczok, Skrzyczne and Barania Góra

Where the peak names come from: Klimczok, Skrzyczne and Barania Góra

Skrzyczne from frogs, Klimczok from a brigand, Barania Góra from many things at once. An overview of the explanations of the names of three Beskid peaks, with information on who recorded them and how far they can be trusted.

Skiing in Szczyrk, the Żywiec region and Bielsko-Biała: slopes and ski jumps beyond Wisła

Skiing in Szczyrk, the Żywiec region and Bielsko-Biała: slopes and ski jumps beyond Wisła

Szczyrk, Bielsko-Biała and the Żywiec region have large downhill resorts, family slopes and ski jumps. An overview from the history of the Skrzyczne chairlift to the traditional slopes of Pilsko.

Skiing in Wisła and Ustroń: the slopes where the great career of the Beskids began

Skiing in Wisła and Ustroń: the slopes where the great career of the Beskids began

In the interwar period Wisła was second only to Zakopane as a ski resort. An overview of the slopes in Wisła and Ustroń: from miners' T-bars to modern chairlifts, with cross-country trails at Kubalonka and a skiing museum.

Szczyrk: how a village beneath Skrzyczne became a ski resort

Szczyrk: how a village beneath Skrzyczne became a ski resort

Until the early 20th century Szczyrk was a village of zarębnik settlers, shepherds and woodcutters. A shelter for skiers on Skrzyczne, the chairlift of 1958 and the holiday houses of Upper Silesian workplaces turned it into a tourist town.

The Trail of the Eagles' Nests: the idea of 1927, the trail of 1930 and today's route

The Trail of the Eagles' Nests: the idea of 1927, the trail of 1930 and today's route

The red trail from Kraków to Częstochowa has behind it two projects: a proposal from 1927 and the marking out of 1950. The first trail, from 1930, ran quite differently from today's.

Szyndzielnia and Klimczok: two peaks above Bielsko and Szczyrk

Szyndzielnia and Klimczok: two peaks above Bielsko and Szczyrk

Two neighbouring peaks of the Silesian Beskids, 1,028 and 1,117 metres above sea level, are separated by a few dozen minutes' walk. They have mountain huts with fires in their past, an alpine garden founded in 1905 and the border of historic Silesia and Lesser Poland on the summit.

Siewierz and Morsko: the duchy of the Kraków bishops and the castle on the Tygrys rock

Siewierz and Morsko: the duchy of the Kraków bishops and the castle on the Tygrys rock

For over three hundred years Siewierz was the capital of a duchy ruled by the bishops of Kraków, and its castle stands today as a permanent ruin. Morsko Castle, called Bąkowiec, is the second fortress of the old borderland between Lesser Poland and Silesia, with a history known only in part.

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