Tatras
October Tatras
2022-10-12
photos: 54
Forbidden Songs. Havran & Novy, 20 years after.
2022-06-12
photos: 21
Springvibes & glimpses 2022
2022-06-11
photos: 37
Mount Siroka skitour
2022-03-25
photos: 45
Spis & Orava
2022-03-10
photos: 32
Tatra 2020
2020-08-15
photos: 42
Muran
2020-01-05
photos: 10
Tomkowa Dream 2019
2019-09-13
photos: 31
All Saints' Morning
2018-11-06
photos: 24
Mount Slubica, Branisko, Spis highlands, Slovakia, 1st November 2018.
Zaduški spiskie II
2018-11-05
photos: 10
High Tatras from Lomnicky Stit. 10th June 2018.
2018-06-18
photos: 7
Javorina in bloom
2018-06-15
photos: 20
Tatra Mountain Guide - Tomasz Świst. Tatra springtime moments 2018
2018-06-12
photos: 41
Duke of Javorina secrets unveiled.
2017-11-09
photos: 16
Spiš Zaduški. Before you go.
2017-11-08
photos: 50
Summer strolls.
2017-07-30
photos: 1
Spisz and Tatra October moods 2016
2016-10-31
photos: 136
When February meets May. One beautiful day in Tatras.
2016-03-02
photos: 26
Stara Roztoka meeting and winter foretastes in Tatras.
2015-12-05
photos: 17
Roztoka, Rusinowa Polana and the area. 28-29th November 2015.
Tatra springtime delights - Crocuses 2015
2015-04-28
photos: 13
Springtime is here! Morning trip to Chocholowska valley along purple fields of crocuses. 27th April 2015.
Tatra Winter Horizons 2015
2015-02-20
photos: 76
High Tatra, White Tatra, Western Tatra and Low Tatra winter horizons. Slovakia/Poland. February 2015.
Tatra Mountain Guide - Tomasz Świst. A bit of guiding 2014/2015
2015-02-19
photos: 88
First snow. Tatras after "Roztoka".
2014-12-08
photos: 46
Before and after traditional Roztoka meeting, early winter glance at Tatras. Bialka river valley, Morskie Oko lake, Gesia Szyja evening vistas and Javorina area. 29.11-2.12.2014
Get the Balance Right in Tatras of Javorina, April 2014
2014-04-18
photos: 49
Peaceful asylum finally. Winter strikes back in April. Tatras of Javorina, beaver's dams in Podspady. 13-16th April 2014.
In Search of Lost Winter in Tatras II. February 2014
2014-03-02
photos: 51
Kopske Sedlo pass, sunset walk to Skalka peak, morning visit to Lapszanka pass, Javorina and Zdiar area, High Tatras and White Tatras in the last days of February 2014.
Windy Point. In Search of Lost Winter in Tatras.
2014-01-30
photos: 72
26/27.01.2014 Five Polish Lakes & Evening spectacle on Mt.Kozi Wierch summit & Javorina area
Tatra mountain guide. Czerwone Wierchy "Red Peaks" - December hike
2013-12-17
photos: 29
14/12/2013. Brilliantly sunny Saturday in Tatras, hiking from Kuznice to Kondracka pass and further West by the scenic ridge of Czerwone Wierchy "Red Peaks" massif, descending at sunset along Twardy Uplaz ridge in deep snows on the forest line towards Koscieliska valley. With best greets to my Swiss and Spanish companions that beautiful day!
The Day the World Turned White. Fall ends, winter arrives to Tatras.
2013-11-28
photos: 29
High Tatras. The last weekend of November. Witnessing seasons sudden and final change. From Indian summer to fairy-tale winter within hours... Morskie Oko to Javorina corners and feet of White Tatras. Nothing but serenity and magnificence of nature's eternal rule. The ordinariness beloved.
There's no other place in this world, where the normal way of everyday life in all its aspects would fill me with such deep sense of peace and joy.
Tatra mountain guide. Roztoka 2013 - Guiding season's ending.
photos: 8
Tatra Mountain Guide. The Last Breath of Summer in High Tatras. Rysy climb with Mike.
2013-09-13
photos: 16
One summer morning on Lomnica peak
2013-08-07
photos: 25
Some pics from the last Saturday's morning trip to Lomnica peak via Lomnicke sedlo pass.
High Tatras, Slovakia, 3rd August 2013
Tatra mountain guide - Tomasz Swist. 2013 guiding season
photos: 90
Between white and blue. Tatra winter landscapes 2013
photos: 65
Though the title of the album may be a bit misleading as we suffer from one of the most non-sunny seasons I remember here in southern Poland and the whole Subcarpathian area... but still the only brilliant winter days of the year caught me skiing or hiking high up there in Tatra mountains even when the valleys below remained enshrouded in misty greyness...
Some photo excerpts of Tatra winter scenery here for your enjoyment.
Gasienicowa, Bystrej & Kondratowa valleys, Kasprowy Wierch & Western Tatras, Skalnata valley & Lomnicke sedlo panoramas, Javorina & White Tatra foothills
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nick: Grazyna
2013-04-12 05:21
awesome beauty!
Nad Kralovou sa blýska! Windy ridges and raging seas of clouds for the New Year's opening in Low Tatras
2013-01-04
photos: 82
Tatra mountain guide - Tomasz Świst. 2012 guiding season - photo excerpts
photos: 182
One November evening in Tatras.
2012-11-28
photos: 37
Once upon a day, sunrise adn sunset over Lapszanka pass.
2012-10-30
photos: 17
Golden Age of Javorina excerpts.
2012-10-29
photos: 48
All in good time. Low Tatras & Slovak Paradise and the area
2012-10-28
photos: 41
Postcards from Tatras. Summer 2012
2012-08-30
photos: 66
Tatra mountain guide. July Tatras with Fanny
2012-07-20
photos: 22
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nick: rita
2014-02-15 21:04
Ogladasz korzenie gor???
Lodowy's springtime dreams...
2012-05-03
photos: 65
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nick: Michał
2012-05-07 13:41
piękne widoki, jak bym to całkiem niedawno widział...pzdr...
2012 winter in Tatras. Kasprowy & Hala
photos: 51
Where Dunajec river meanders... At the turn of the year in Pieniny mountains
photos: 54
As autumn leaves. Towards Zelene Pleso /"Green Lake of Kežmarok"/
2011-12-01
photos: 50
Lenticular afterparty. Painted with the wind
2011-11-30
photos: 47
When morning eyes scramble rainbow high... Springtime erratum to passed winter's tale in Tatras.
2011-06-02
photos: 59
Tatra morning encounters
2011-06-01
photos: 35
Following wolf's trace. Tatra winter adventure. 7-9th March 2011
photos: 87
Hard to believe, but there are still some bites of Tatras I have never tasted, places that after all these years filled with mad fascination for exploration remain undiscovered for me. That makes them especially tempting now, when I stay so far from my beloved peaks and valleys. Until early March, the uppermost part of Koprova valley where the legendary forest wilderness of Temne Smreciny spreads was among those missing places.
During those 3 sunny, winter days in Tatras I found time for recalling myself on skis around Strbske Pleso and living an unforgetable survival adventure while ski crossing Tatra range from Tri Studnicky on southern side to North through passes of Zavory and Tomanova towards Ornak on Polish side. No signs of any human in the mountains just wolf's traces at dawn to follow...Gorgeous winter scenery of those days and the fact that my Guardian Angel took good care of me once again that long, frosty(-15 Celsius) night with unplanned bivouac down in Ticha valley deep forests makes the trip one of the most memorable ones in recent seasons.
Farewell to good, old year in Tatras
photos: 40
That was the first Christmas time in four years I was to spend at home, in Poland. Great occasion to drop in Tatras that simply couldn't have been missed.Though the weather wasn't perfect and some ambitious plans of winter bivouacs deep in the very heart of the mountains above Bielovodska valley lost their chance to be accomplished this time, it was great to see beloved Tatras after those long 5 months and to say goodbye to the passing year looking at the world and life from above. No doubt 2010 was the most special time for me reminiscing all those fantastic places and mountains I had great opportunity to admire and explore across Europe, experiencing unforgetable adventures. Keeping faith the upcoming 2011 won't be worse!
With best wishes to all viewers of that album, Happy climbs, happy trails and Happy New Year to you!
In Batizovska valley
photos: 44
In the valley of happy returns. Spring in Tatras. Tatranská Javorina & Kežmarok
photos: 179
One day in Bielovodska valley
photos: 10
This April began in Tatras with wonderful sunny weather and I just couldn’t wait more for going to the mountains after coming back home from gloomy Ireland. My eyes were missing the view of old, beloved places for so long that there was no hesitation where to go first, where to open new hiking season. Last Friday morning along with first rays of rising sun appearing on snowy summits on the horizon I entered Bielovodska valley at Lysa Polana. Due to lack of any winter equipment my trip led through the whole length of the valley ending at the threshold of Kacacia and Litvorova valleys. If morning hike up the valley was just a pure fun, the descent became a real, neverending torment in deep, wet snow. Luckily the weather was just perfect and I reached Palenica meadow on Polish side before dark, crossing earlier border Bialka river around Stara Roztoka following bear traces... Quite exhausting, but really great hike and comeback to Tatras with some fabulous impressions throughout the day in Bielovodska valley, the day the greatest Tatra valley was presenting all its beauty only for me, since I haven’t met anybody there beside scaring away a herd of beautiful deers crossing the stream at dawn.
By the old pathways, towards Siroka.
photos: 10
Storm in Tazka valley
photos: 26
The first day of August in the heart of Tatras began brilliantly.
First sun rays were touching summits and ridges high above while the valley still remianed deeply shadowed and cold. I woke up just before sunset to admire that magic spectacle of light. I took some photos and got back quickly under my rock to warm sleeping bag and fall asleep again with those morning views under eyelids.
Golden dawn didn't foretell what happened just a few hours later. Sunny mountain landscape around Tazka valley turn into grey and darkened within minutes and the whole area began to resound thrilling thunder roars' music, the storm was near... In a blink of an eye white clouds coming from north, along the depth of Bielovodska valley began to soar higher and higher and appeared above the lake and rocky threshold of the valley to fill the whole area with thick fog, it started to rain... Stopped by the weather on my climb to Niznie Rysy ridge, standing in front of my cosy rock house, I was waiting for the Sun to come back.
Tomkowa Dream 2004-2008
photos: 30
Birth of a legend. Bradavica & Velicky 2006
photos: 145