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Skrzyczne (1,257 m) is the highest peak of the Silesian Beskids and one of the summits of the Crown of Polish Mountains, a list of the highest points of Poland's mountain ranges. Above the Żywiec Basin it rises as a single, almost 800-metr…
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Set into an altar on the slopes of Kotarz are stones from Jerusalem, the Sahara and Australia, and even fragments of meteorites. Kotarz (974 m) is a wooded peak above Szczyrk and Brenna in the Silesian Beskids, the highest point of the rid…
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Malinowska Skała (1,152 m) is the hub of the Silesian Beskids: ridges run from its summit towards Skrzyczne, Barania Góra and the Salmopolska Pass. The boundaries of Wisła, Szczyrk and Lipowa meet at the top, which is also the old border b…
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Karkoszczonka is the lowest and easiest crossing of the main ridge of the Silesian Beskids between Szczyrk and Brenna – a broad saddle at roughly 723–729 m (sources give both figures) that locals have used for centuries. For a long time it…
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At 934 m the regional road 942 crosses the ridge of the Silesian Beskids and winds down in hairpins to Szczyrk on one side and Wisła on the other. Salmopol Pass is the highest road pass in the Silesian Beskids and the second highest in the…