Hey dudes, im a boardrider and just recently returned from a hut in Southern Poland.. the hut is called Kurnytowa Koliba. its from 1839, got no electricity nor water, and if u want to keep urselves warm at night, better start chopping wood. It's in Grojce mountains, pretty much in the middle of a forest. thing is, climbing that mountain there and freeriding down is awesome... Ive been freeriding in Korbielow and i guess it's - beside Kasprowy Wierch - the best place to freeride in Poland as u get a 1,5h trip down from the top thru the changing forest all the way to the parking lot without touching the trails. but if u want a real survival thingie, go for the hut =)
Tak, Korbielów is very nice. I know all Polish mountains. Almost any rock as I'm traveling with my father on the foot since I was 7 - one month each year. I had a chance to see ecological disasters like in Izerskie góry were whole forest died in 2-3 years in very huge area. That was because Czech industrial and acid rains in 80ties. Now forest is recultivated, but other things are worrying me right now. Extended tourism has been developed recently: Cable cars are build by the nature protected areas, there are motocross, jeep races in the national parks. Heavy machines came to the forests and people are building houses anywhere - ugly, shapeless houses. The wilderness shrank dramatically last 15 years. Cars are everywhere. I remember how it was 20 years ago - all food and water had to be transported on foot to the tourists stations. People there were much like a family - there was great unity between. Now the foot tourism has died and we with my father feeling like a dinosaurs traveling across our still beautiful country (but in less places).
