Snow Cauldrons – two post-glacial cauldrons cutting into the northern slopes of the Main Ridge, between the Elbe Peak and Wielki Szyszak, also known as Snow Pits, Snow Jams or the Eyes of the Mountain Spirit. Their two-hundred-meter height is impressive …
Łabski Peak (1471 m n.p.m.) – it is a vast massif crowned with a rocky perch high up to 30 m. On the top granite rubble there are rock lichens and mountain pine. The northern slope above the upper edge of the forest (Łabski Upłaz) it is very steep, covered with sandbanks (in winter they can …
Shelter "Szrenica” (1362 m n.p.m.) – w 1922 r. a German tourist shelter was built here. The investment had an anti-Czecho-Slovak overtone (previously, the German Kurt Endler had a license to run the nearby Voseckej bouda). Stone building, disfiguring the panorama of the Giant Mountains, was given the name of "Sudeten Germans”. W 1946 …
Szrenica (1362 m n.p.m.) – observation peak in the Main Ridge of the Karkonosze Mountains, towering over Szklarska Poręba and situated in the strict reserve of KPN. The state border runs just below the top. Polish name Szrenica, formed from the word frost with the suffix -ica, replaced after II …
Hala Szrenicka is a natural meadow within the boundaries of the KNP, enlarged in the 18th century. by grazing. It is located on both sides of the border (Czech. Food louka). Centuries ago, the hall was visited by treasure hunters - the presence of valuable minerals is evidenced by the fact, that in 1926 r. …
PTTK hostel "Na Hali Szrenicka” – w 1786 r. a shepherd's hut was built here (Nowa Śląska Buda, in opposition to the Old Silesian Buda at the Łabski Peak), which over time was turned into a tourist hostel. W1869 r. a road from Szklarska Poręba was built …
Karkonosze National Park, created in 1959 r, covers an area of approx 56 km2, of which 38 km2 to lasy, and covers the highest and most interesting in terms of nature and landscape parts of the Main Ridge of the Karkonosze Mountains and two enclaves in the Lower Regions: Waterfall …
At the City Hall in Szklarska Poręba (ul. Buczka, at the intersection of ul. National Unity and Sikorski) we turn into ul. Sikorskiego towards Jakuszyce. After a few hundred meters, we pass Raven Rocks on the left and cross Kamienna (earlier, the red trail crosses the trail …
The layout of the plant floors is as follows: in the bottom box (400-1000 m n.p.m.) natural mixed forest with beech, spruce, fir, sycamore and pine trees were replaced by spruce monocultures. In the upper rack (do 1250 m n.p.m.) there are compact spruce forests with an admixture of sycamore and rowan. …
The specificity of the Karkonosze climate, standing out from other Sudeten ranges, it results mainly from higher altitudes, significant relative heights and the latitudinal position of the Main Ridge. The Karkonosze Mountains have a local mountain climate influenced by the features of the oceanic climate (atlantic). They characterize him: short …