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Photo 1 (c) Beata Sobolewska-Woźniak

Photos 2 - 5 (c) Piotr Woźniak

Wrzosówka, Sudety (1 - 4), pola przy Lutyni (5). Lipiec 2011.
Wrzosówka, Sudety mountains (1 - 4), fields near Lutynia village (5), Poland. July 2011.

Still On The Road

(c) Piotr Woźniak

Karkonosze, September 2009.

And Heaven Above Me

(c) Piotr Woźniak

Karkonosze, September 2009.

The Sentinel

(c) Piotr Woźniak

Karkonosze Mountains, September 2009.

Snow Kettles

(c) Beata Sobolewska-Woźniak

A view from the edge of Great Snow Kettle.

Snow Kettles - Śnieżne Kotły in Karkonosze range are cirques or niches eroded by the glacier. There are two kettles: Small Kettle (ca 550 m. long, 400 m. width, 300 m. depth) and Great Kettle (800 m. long, 600 m. width, 300 m. depth), divided by rocky bed. The granite walls are 100 m. high. The Kettles area is natural and biosphere preserve with some unique, endemic species, like specific type of saxifraga - Saxifraga moschata basaltica - it's the only place where this type occurs. Also lot of alpine and arctic types, and, what's interesting, lichen type Rhizocarpon lecanorium which is the oldest plant in Karkonosze (some of them are 600 years old).

(c) Piotr Woźniak

Eastern wall of Great Snow Kettle.

(c) Piotr Woźniak

Look down to the north.

Three Pigs

(c) Piotr Woźniak

Yes, that's the name of this rock formation - The Three Pigs. Located near Szrenica Peak (1,362 metres) are one of the most impressive rocks in Karkonosze Mountains.
Karkonosze range, which is part of Sudety, are filled with such rocks. Mountains are very old, those strange rocks were created during the erosion process. Rocks didn't eroded evenly, some parts were more resistant to this process - that way such forms appeared. The process begun somewhere in Carbon, as far as I know...

(c) Piotr Woźniak

And, of course, there is a legend about creation of Karkonosze... But I'll write more later ;-)

Old Masters Work

(c) Beata Sobolewska-Woźniak

Karkonosze Mountains, September 2009.

In The Hall Of The Mountain King

(c) Piotr Woźniak

Karkonosze - old mountains on the border between Czech Republic and Poland.
This epic peak is Łabski Szczyt (Łabski Peak, Violik in Czech), 1471 m. above sea level. Name comes from river Łaba (Elba), one of the ancient slavonic holy rivers. Its sources are located on southern sides of the peak.
(Photo taken at Sept. 2009)