Hey guys, been kind of lazy for several months.. Been procrastinating everything, even posting something about the trip. but here it goes along with a train from me - Level 1 - Level 4 restrictions, 4 games per level. Enjoy :) Runs until september 8, next saturday.

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Im just going to go over in several words about the trip here, If anyone is interested just ask :) I will be happy to go into detail.
I am writing a little recap about the trip and will add some paragraphs in GA descriptions, as long as Im writing them anyway.

So on 22nd of June seven friends and I went on a trip with rented van to Poland, Zakopane to climb Tatra mountains. around 1100 km long road in front of us. Drive there was rather successful but tiring as we drove without rest stops. We almost got lost and ended up in Belarus (kind of illegal without visas). So the start already was adventurous

1st day - we climbed Giewont, 1985 m high and beautiful. It has a huge cross on top of it and it looks down to city of Zakopane. Weather wasnt great - it was raining at times and temperature didnt rise above 15°C. But we had fun, we where soaked wet and freezing but we where happy.

2nd day - we planned on a rest day going to Gubalowka. But we kind of missed our planned trail and went on one that is very very steep through pine forest.. Not our brightest moment, but then again - we where excited and having a launch with beer on the tourist street atop of Gubalowka was that more rewarding.

3rd day - Plan is Morskie Oko. But it has a horrible (IIFRC about 8 km long) tarmac trail to get to it. I had bad trainers on, so my feet where killing me. Morskie oko is beautiful, no other words to describe it. On the way back we split up and those who wanted went on longer but more scenic route to the Valley of The Five Lakes. Mesmerizing, just mesmerizing.. We had a launch with view, and then, on the way back, we had Tomato soup and beer in a mountain house. Beautiful waterfall and extreme trails where you almost have to crawl to get over the rock.

4th day - Was just a little walk to another lake (sorry, cant remember what it was called). But this day was most exciting - on the way back we wanted to check out caves. We either could have gone to one with guide, but we had to wait for it to begin. So we chose caves without guide. We started going in the caves expecting them to be many small caves along the trail - what we arrived at ? One long cave, where you have to crawl and at moments even go on your stomach. it was one way trail so we didnt go back. For 15 minutes we crawled through complete darkness on our knees. It was scary, I wont deny. But it was so exciting and we all where just happy beyond everything when we found the exit.

5th day - Kasprowy Wierch. Went up there with a cable car. it was suppoused to be with great views - what we got was mist so intense we didnt see the cables for the cable car. Like this we went to Świnica, which was our target of the day. But we sadly turned around because the trail started to become dangerous - with chains and open cliff (I hope its the correct term). And without seeing anything further thanks to mist half of our group got scared and we decided to turn around (one of our friends already stayed at the station atop of Kasprowy Wierch thanks to swollen ankle so this was dissapointing to us. But at least its something to plan for the future.

6th day - We went to Slovakia to go on a trail from other side of Tatra mountains. Again in front of us was long tarmac trail. Tiring and boring mountain pass, but we decided to split up again. And the trail we took further was delightful. A perfect conclusion to perfect trip :)

Along the way we met some awesome French backpackers, really cool Polish tourists who had came here with train, friendly random people along the trails. We witnessed two rescue missions on the day when we went to Morskie oko.

Anyhow - a little look at my trip turned into a big post, but maybe someone finds this interesting :) Thanks for reading if you got this far, and hope you like the GA :)

PS. I will add photos and maybe more information along the way.

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Have you climbed mountains ?

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Yes, been to Tatra mountains
Yes, been somewhere else (maybe share in comments)
No, haven't yet, but want to
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I'm from Slovakia! Been to Tatras numerous times, love it there, the only good thing about our country is our nature <3

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Looking forward on seeing more of Slovakia someday, as little as I saw on our little drive to Slovakia, it was beautiful.

If trip to Tenerife falls out, Slovakia could be our next in line ;) Some of our group had been in Slovakia before and they said only positive things

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native people are fine, the government on the other side...

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Nice photos! ^_^

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Thanks for sharing, ChrisKutcher :)

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Thanks & Bump! 😊 👍

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Very nice train, Thank you - Blue Heart Bump

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Nice train, nice pictures. Thanks!

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Thanks for beautiful pictures!
I don't like traveling myself, but I like to look at others' photos :)

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My only "experience" of climbing mountains is in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild.

Jokes aside, I think it would be a fun experience. I live in a city, so it would be cool to be in a more isolated and natural environment. Doesn't even necessarily have to be climbing mountains, just anything that gives that sort of experience like a large empty field or sailing the ocean or something.

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Yes, definitely - a trip to nature is always great.. Doesn't need to be anything big.. a lake or just besides woods

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thanks for the ga's o/, I did some camping and backpacking back in the day many moons agooooo, I also had a great day white water rafting on one of the trips, the places were Shenandoah Valley and the Adirondack Mountains and the white water rafting was down the New River by way of W. Virginia on the same trip that was also Shenandoah. I also was at Bear Mountain for a weekend survival trip back in high school during the winter, was a weekend to teach us how to survive if caught in certain situations in the mountains during winter. many adventures those years..also some hiking and exploring in the mountains in Arizona and a brief over night and day stay which wasn't planned and I can't be sure what part of the mountains we were at since it was out of necessity at the time and I had never even been there before ..but that's a longggg story and a longgg time agooo, lol. Hiked on some of the Appalachian Trail as well but no camping as it actually ran through the back of a friend's house I had back in highschool's (parent's house) and we could just start hiking it. ahhh the good ole days, lol.

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Sounds interesting - the survival training..
We have something like boy scouts, but more concentrated to military. There is survival but not that kind of survival.

Thanks for sharing - beautiful places ;)

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You got some fantastic photos there! Thanks for the train!

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Greetings from Poland, I never remember on which mountain I was, but I generally like to climb on them. I hope you had fun.

Thanks for the train!

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Yes, I had :) thanks. Definitely would return and climb again

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Beautiful photos! The cave sounds pretty intense, and the views of that crater-ish lake are awesome! If I'm ever out that way, I'll definitely have to try to keep these trails in mind! Thank you for sharing! :)

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Thanks

I definitely suggest to go there, its great.
The guy who planned the trip for us had been going there for already 6 years with his family.. And he says its awesome every time

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Thanks and bump!

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I've hiked Tatra mountains several times and quite liked it. That said, I do prefer Bieszczady, they're smaller, but they have some trails where you walk for the whole day and you don't see even one person, it's pretty great.

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I would prefer trail without people.. The popular ones are littered with people, gets annoying bumping into everyone, even if everyone is super kind.
When we walked up the mountain from Slovakias side, we had people for the first part of trail, but we walked further into mountains (the end of the trail was several km down the road, and others picked us up there.
That trail had 4 people.. And one very very polite dude who couldnt speak English but tried his best.. Really enjoyed that trail - no people and it was a bit run down, rocks were fallen out of trail, at one place the trail was in middle of river that was out of its shores.. It wasnt safe, a girl I tracked with fell and almost wisted her ankle when we still had several km to go..
But I agree - less people make the trail feel more connected to nature.

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Yeah, your days 1,2,3 and 5 were the most popular hikes in Tatra mountains. You were lucky to go there before the season started for good. In August, those places have actual lines of people waiting to get to the top/lake.

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well, it cost us a weather, though..
But I suppose having to wait in line wouldnt have been anything better..

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Thanks for the ride and for sharing your adventures!

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