Poland trip, day 4
Index
| Date | Peak | Height | PF | Location | WCP/FP | MAP |
| 23.09.25 | Park Norweski | – | – | Dolnośląskie, Poland | – | MAP |
| 23.09.25 | Łysocina | 1189m | 143m | Dolnośląskie, Poland, Hradec Králové, Czech R. | – | MAP |
| 23.09.25 | Skalny Stól | 1283m | 120m | Dolnośląskie, Poland, Hradec Králové, Czech R. | – | MAP |
Continued from Poland trip, day 3…
Park Norweski, Sep 23 2025
Tuesday: We checked out of Hotel Bella in Jelenia Góra in the morning but left the car at the hotel. We walked to the Park Norweski to check out the Norwegian pavilion.
After a few minutes, we realized that we weren’t realy in the “park mood“.
The Norwegian pavilion was a replica of Frognerseteren in Oslo. Very odd. The place was closed (it was early morning), so just walked around it.
We just had to understand the story behind this…
The “wildlife” was more tangible…
Then we discovered a vending machine for pidgeon snacks…
It was fun to get a feel for how it’s like being the “pidgeon lady”, but I hope Anne doesn’t pursue this interest…
It was a nice park, but in the end, we just wanted to get away from the town and seek new adventures on the Czech side of the border.
Trip statistics: 2,6km, 30 vertical meters, 0h:52m
Łysocina (1189m), Skalny Stół (1283m), Sep 23 2025
We booked a hotel room at the Wellness resort Bouda in Malá Úpa – less than an hour’s drive from Jelenia Góra. This – predominantly – winter resort was quite sleepy at this time of the year, and we hardly saw any tourists.
We checked into the hotel quite early and were told that we could check in at noon.
Meanwhile, I suggested that we could hike Łysocina. But first, we had to locate the path.
The mountain top was hidden in fog, but I didn’t care. I just wanted a new P100 top…
We realized we were probably starting out on the wrong path but decided to give it a go.
When I discovered a vague path in the forest, I suggested we should follow it.
A few minutes later, we were on the ridge route to Łysocina.
The path was easy to follow.
It was a bit muddy in places, but hiking was overall easy.
And then we arrived at our first P100 top for the day.
We took the same route back, except that this time, we followed the border route back to the main road.
I tried to convince Anne into also hiking Skalny Stół and she wasn’t a stranger to the idea, but first, she needed something to eat. We headed towards a restaurant-looking building and stopped outside to decide if this actually was a restaurant or not.
Then a Polish guy started talking to us – in Norwegian. He could confirm that this was a restaurant and then he told us he had been working in Koppang (Norway) as a carpenter for 5 years.
The woman inside the restaurant didn’t speak English and the only thing we were able to translate, was pancakes…
After a nice “meal”, Anne was good to go for another top.
We followed a nice forest path from the restaurant and up to the high ridge.
After a while, we arrived at Czoło (Polish) / Čelo (Czech) 1269m – a quite anonymous hump on the high ridge.
Then we continued 1,7km on the path towards Skalny Stół.
It was nice to reach Skalny Stół. The top was slightly above the ridge level.
The fog had begun to lift, but no dramatic views were opening up just yet…
Again, peakbagger.com had a higher height (1283m) than the signpost (1281m).
We continued across the top, aiming to return via a different route.
There were a few hikers along the trail, but not many.
Then we saw the road to the Jelenka hut, which we would follow the next day.
When we got to the fork, we discovered that the route was going back up the mountain!
After a while, we arrived at a nice trail rest and recreation area.
There was a board with pictures of things like banana peels and bottles, showing how long they take to decompose in nature. I found that very educational and suggested to Anne to bring this idea back to Norway.
There was also a “map” and I was certain that “obalený les” meant “you are here“. But Google Translate said it meant “fallen forest“. ChatGPT said “encircled/covered forest” – a special type of forest.
And then we got a bit of sunshine!
That made us very happy!
Then we returned to Malá Úpa. We stopped by the Mammut clothing store but found the clothes too expensive.
We also stopped by the tourist information to shop postcards, stamps and map.
Finally, we went to the hotel and found our room.
We had a logistical problem. We didn’t have any snacks or anything to drink for our hike to Sněžka the following day, and there were no stores in Malá Úpa. We were advised to drive to Horní Maršov (in the Czech R.) – a 15-minute drive – and we found a store minutes before closing time.
In my naive mind, I would have assumed that the woman in the store would be happy about a reasonably good sell at the end of the day, but she wasn’t. She was literally pushing us out with the door key in her hand.
In any case, we were properly “equipped” for next day’s hike and returned to Malá Úpa, looking forward to dinner.
We liked the hotel, but the dinner took us by surprise. There was soup for starters, then we could choose between two main dishes and there was one dessert. We chose meatballs stuffed with cabbage and mashed potatoes plus salads from the buffet. The soup was totally OK, the meatballs were dry, and the dessert was OK. But the whole dinner experience was very effective. We were back in our room 45 minutes later.
We called it a day at 9:30pm, packed for Sněžka the following day.
Trip statistics: 14,8km, 500 vertical meters, 4h:19m
