Ski touring in the Tatra Mountains of Poland - Video
I have just got back from a week in the Tatra Mountains of Southern Poland. I was leading an Eagle ski club trip. Some of the team met up in Krakow then met Howard and Susie in Zakopane who had driven from Chamonix very kindly bringing my luggage. Snow was the theme for the trip, it was snowing when we arrived and it continued to snow through most of our trip with the exception of one afternoon it pretty much snowed the entire time. We started the trip with a bit of off piste skiing round the main Zakopane lift with a bit of skinning to make sure all our kit was OK. The plan was then to make a hut to hut trip traversing the Tatras from west to east. Unfortunately the hug amount of fresh snow between 1.5 and 2 m by the time we left meant that we couldn't really achieve this, the avalanche risk was category 4 for most of the time we were there and the practicalities of travelling with that much snow made touring almost impossible. We did manage to link some huts and maintain a tour like feel to the trip sleeping in new huts most evenings and enjoyed some great skiing. The huts were great with hot showers and beer on tap, the terrain looked great so we will be back. Have a look at video.
Skiing in the tatra mountains from Bruce Goodlad on Vimeo.