21 July 2017 We set out early from Kuźnice, still wrapped in the cool, resin-scented air of the forest. At around 1,000 metres above sea level, the day had not yet fully warmed, and the light filtered softly through the spruce and fir trees. The blue and yellow trails led us steadily upward, their gravel […]
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23 km · 1,131 m elevation gain · 8–9 hours18 July 2017 We set out very early in the morning, long before the parking lot in Palenica Białczańska filled with cars and voices. The length and seriousness of the route demanded this quiet beginning. We, my wife Hania and our sons Simon and Victor, and
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6 July 2016 After breakfast we left Gardiner and drove south through Mammoth, following the road deeper into Yellowstone. The morning light was clear and warm, and the mountains still carried a quiet freshness, as if the day had only just begun to breathe. Along the way we stopped again and again, because Yellowstone never
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29 May 2023 After finishing the Fossil Discovery Trail, I walk back to the car with the feeling that the day is far from over. From the parking lot along Blue Mountain Road, I step onto the Sound of Silence Trail, a path that promises not fossils, but space, rock, and quiet. The desert receives
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1 September 2019 A soft blanket of clouds hung low over Many Glacier on the first morning of September 2019, when I set out for one of the most unforgettable hikes in my life: the Grinnell Glacier Trail. The air was cool and damp, the colors around Swiftcurrent Lake slightly muted—greens deepened by moisture, the
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3 September 2019 I started the Highline Trail shortly before midday, stepping out onto the sun-washed boardwalk of Logan Pass at 10:30. The air was clear, the sky a flawless blue dome, and the mountains stood sharply against it—so different from the gloom and fog that had hung over the trail three years earlier when
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5th November 2025 Today, I started my journey into Zion Canyon later than usual. My legs were still sore from yesterday’s strenuous hike to Angels Landing, and I wanted to ease into the day. On the drive from Hurricane to Zion, I couldn’t resist stopping several times. The landscape was already breathtaking. The towering Wire
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I left my hotel at Wingate in Hurricane at 6:20 in the morning. The air was still cool, and the horizon had just begun to glow with the first colors of dawn. I was lucky enough to win a permit for Angels Landing the day before, and today was my chance. The park requires hikers
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It was just after one in the afternoon when I left Moab, heading southwest in the direction of the National Monument. My goal was to reach it by sunset, but the landscape refused to let me hurry. Almost immediately, I found myself stopping again and again, unable to resist the call of the desert’s silent
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The morning light spread gently across the desert as I drove toward Devils Garden, the farthest reach of Arches National Park. The 18-mile stretch from the visitor center unfolded like a journey through time — layers of ochre, rust, and pale gold rising in sculpted walls on both sides of the road. In the distance,
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