Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Zakopane, Poland

Kalacka Cave – a cave located in the Bystra Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located on the eastern slope of Kalacka Turnia descending to the Kalatówka clearing, above the Bystra Spring, slightly above the marked tourist trail to the Kondratowa Valley, at an altitude of 1230 meters above sea level. The length of the cave is 405 meters, and its denivelation is 19 meters.

Wikipedia: Jaskinia Kalacka (PL)

Dudnica – a cave in the Bystra Valley in the Western Tatras. It has two entrance openings, located close to each other, at the foot of Kalacka Turnia at an altitude of 1181 meters above sea level, near the mouth of the Bystra Cave. The length of the cave is 185 meters, and the denivelation is 12 meters.

Wikipedia: Dudnica (PL), Website

Kalacka Turnia – a crag rising above the Kalatówki clearing in the Polish Tatra Mountains. It is located at the end of the eastern ridge of the Long Giewont. On Kalacka Kopa this ridge splits into two branches; Kalacka Turnia is located in the orographically right. Its south-western slopes descend to the Bystra Valley, the north-eastern slopes to the Kalacký Riverbed. The slopes are now completely forested, only the very top is rocky, similar to the ruins of a castle. For this reason, in the first half of the nineteenth century, it was called the "Zakopane Castle". It is built of limestone rocks. The limestone substrate causes karst phenomena to occur here. At the south-western foot of Kalacka Turnia there is a large Bystra Spring, and in the slopes there are caves: Mokra Koleba, Fascinating Nyża, Kalacki Tunnel, Dudnica, Kalacka Cave, Bystra Cave, Hole behind the Boulders, Kozi Korytarz.

Wikipedia: Kalacka Turnia (PL)

Bystra Cave, formerly also Nižní Kalacká Cave – a cave located in the Western Tatras in the Bystra Valley, at the foot of Kalacká Turnia. Together with the Kalacka Cave and the Dudnica Cave, it is part of the drainage system of the Giewont massif.

Wikipedia: Jaskinia Bystrej (PL), Website

Mokra Koleba – a cave, or rather a shelter, in the Kondratowa Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located on the southern slope of Kalacka Turnia, at an altitude of 1285 meters above sea level. The length of the cave is 11 meters, and its denivelation is 2.5 meters.

Wikipedia: Mokra Koleba (PL)

Crag on the Biały River – a crag in the ridge of the Long Giewont in the Polish Western Tatras. It is located in the eastern part of this ridge, steeply descending to Kalacka Kopa, between Wrótki and Wyżne Wrótki. The latter pass is located just on the west side of Turnia nad Białem, while a grassy and rocky ridge about 450 m long descends to Wrótka.

Wikipedia: Turnia nad Białem (PL)

Juhaska Kopa – a small bulge in the ridge of the Long Giewont in the Polish Western Tatras between Juhaska Przehyba and Wyżni Wrótki. The northern slopes descend with a wall both to the Sucha Valley and to the Banie couloir in the upper part of the Strążyska Valley. The southern slopes descend to the Kondratowa Valley.

Wikipedia: Juhaska Kopa (PL)

Kondracka Kopka – a mound in the northern ridge of Kopa Kondracka, located between the Kondracka Pass and the Wyżnia Kondracka Pass, above which it rises only a few meters. It is mostly overgrown with dwarf pine, grassy and scree in places. Its eastern slopes descend to Hell in the Kondratowa Valley, the western slopes to Wyżni in the Mała Łąki Valley. A short perch descends to the latter valley from Kondracka Kopka, separating two gullies descending from the slopes below the Kondracka Pass and Wyżnia Kondracka. These gullies below the perch connect with each other, creating the Głazisty Żleb. The opposite slopes between Kondracka Kopka and Giewont are cut into the Kurski Żleb.

Wikipedia: Kondracka Kopka (PL)

Long Giewont – a long ridge of the Giewont massif in the Western Tatras. It is separated from the main peak called the Great Giewont by the Szczerba Pass.

Wikipedia: Długi Giewont (PL)

Juhaska Turnia – a crag in the ridge of Długi Giewont in the Polish Western Tatras, located between Juhaska Przehyba and Szczerbinka. On the southern side, a several-dozen-meter-high wall descends to the Great Upłaz in the Kondratowa Valley, while in the northern direction the outstanding Juhaski Filar descends from it to the Banie couloir in the Strążyska Valley.

Wikipedia: Juhaska Turnia (Tatry Zachodnie) (PL)

The Cross on Giewont – a metal cross on the top of the Great Giewont in the Giewont massif.

Wikipedia: Krzyż na Giewoncie (PL)

The Great Giewont – rising to an altitude of 1895 m above sea level, the main peak of the Giewont massif in the Western Tatras.

Wikipedia: Wielki Giewont (PL)

Giewoncki Chłopek – crag in Mały Giewont in the Western Tatras. It is located between the Giewoncka Pass and the Zadni Giewoncka Baszta. In the ridge between the Giewoncka Pass and Giewoncki Chłopek there are several more small turnstiles, while it is separated from the Zadnia Giewoncka Tower by the Zadni Giewoncki Karbik. It descends to it with an almost vertical fault of about 10 m. The passage through this fault was rated as III on the UIAA (Tatra) scale of difficulty. Giewoncki Chłopek can be easily walked around from the south, while to the north side it descends to the Kirkor Gully with a wall.

Wikipedia: Giewoncki Chłopek (PL)

Zadnia Giewoncka Baszta – one of the crags in Mały Giewont in the Western Tatras. Like the entire massif of Mały Giewont, it is built of sedimentary rocks – limestone and dolomite. It is located between Zadni Giewoncki Karbik and Skrajny Giewoncki Karbik. The eastern walls descend to the Kirkor Gully, the south-western to the Mała Łąki Valley near the Siodło Pass.

Wikipedia: Zadnia Giewoncka Baszta (PL)

Biała Giewoncka Baszta – one of the crags in Mały Giewont in the Western Tatras. Like the entire massif of Mały Giewont, it is built of sedimentary rocks – limestone and dolomite. It is located between the Pass over the Hole and the Giewoncki Pass. The north-eastern walls descend to the Kirkor Gully, the south-western to the Mała Łąki Valley; from this side, they are covered by two arms of the Gully with the Threshold approaching the passes on both sides of the crag.

Wikipedia: Biała Giewoncka Baszta (PL)

High Giewoncka Baszta – one of the crags in Mały Giewont in the Western Tatras. Like the entire massif of Mały Giewont, it is built of sedimentary rocks – limestone and dolomite. It is located between the Extreme Giewoncki Karbik and the Giewoncki Pass. The eastern walls descend to the Kirkor Gully, while to the west to the Mała Łąka Valley there is a short ridge ending with the Saddle Crag. From the side of Saddle Turnia, this ridge is quite clear, rounded and grassy, above the Saddle it flattens out and grows into the walls of the Zadnia Giewoncka Tower in a hardly distinguishable place. In addition, one more rocky perch descends to the Valley of the Small Meadow from Wysoka Giewoncka Turnia, which separates two gullies. Looking from the bottom, on the left side of this perch there is the Gully with the Threshold, on the right the Gully of the Sleeping Knights.

Wikipedia: Wysoka Giewoncka Baszta (PL)

Saddle Crag – a crag rising in the upper part of the Mała Łąki Valley in the Western Tatras, south of Mały Giewont. It is separated from it by the Siodło Pass. It forms a short, narrow ridge, in which the peak stands out, rising to a height of 1647 m above sea level. It descends along a steep cliff about 150 m high to the Głazisty Żleb. Saddle Crag together with Mały Giewont and Wielka Turnia creates a panorama of peaks rising above Wielka Polana in the Valley of Mała Łąki.

Wikipedia: Siodłowa Turnia (PL)

Extreme Giewwoncka Tower - one of the Turnia in Mały Giewont in the Western Tatras. It is located at its northern end, between the Bacuch Pass and the Pass of the Hole. The western slopes fall to the Little Meadow Valley, northern to the gully of Warzech, the east to the gully of Kirkora. The height of small Giewont, given on many maps, most likely refers to this Turnia, because it seems to be the highest from Zakopane, for Austrian cartographers it was also the easiest available.

Wikipedia: Skrajna Giewoncka Baszta (PL)

Szara Turnia – one of the crags in Mały Giewont in the Western Tatras. It is the most prominent of all crags of Mały Giewont and is well visible from Zakopane, especially in the morning. It is located on the north-eastern ridge of the Extreme Giewoncka Baszta, separated from its top by the Grey Pass. It has two peaks, the southern one is slightly higher. From the shallow and grassy saddle between these peaks, the jam falls. It is steep and stretches along the entire length of the wall. The northern walls of Szara Turnia descend to Szary Żleb. In the upper part of the wall of the northern peak of Szara Turnia there is a partly grassy, partly slab west. Szara Turnia, like the entire massif of Mały Giewont, is built of sedimentary rocks – limestone and dolomite.

Wikipedia: Szara Turnia (PL)