Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Kościelisko, Poland

Zbójnicka Igla – a crag in the north-western perch of Gubalec in the Polish Western Tatras. It is located about 800 m south of Polana Pisana, above Skała Pisana. This crag, built of sedimentary carbonate rocks, is visible from several places in the Kościeliska Valley and from Ornak. It is separated from the higher Zbójnicka Turnia by the pass of Niżni Zbójnicki Przechód. From this pass through the forest, there is a dozen or so meters of approach to the 8-meter fault of the Zbójnicka Needle. Its right side can be used to reach the top. In addition to Zbójnicka Turnia and Zbójnicka Igla, there are other unnamed rocks in the north-western perch of Gubalec.

Wikipedia: Zbójnicka Igła (PL)

Zbójnicka Turnia – a crag on the western slopes of Gubalec forming the eastern wall of the Wyżnia Kościeliska Gate in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. It is located about 800 m south of Polana Pisana, above Skała Pisana. It is separated from the top of Gubalec by a wide pass called Wyżni Zbójnicki Przechod. The name of the crag is related to the robbers' past of the Kościeliska Valley. According to the highlanders, its caves were inhabited by robbers and the treasures they collected are located there. These caves were searched many times by treasure hunters in the past centuries, as evidenced by the signs they carved on the walls.

Wikipedia: Zbójnicka Turnia (PL)

Dudzia Dziura – a cave in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located in the Kraków Gorge, on the slope of Żar below Wielka Turnia, at an altitude of 1201 meters above sea level. The cave is 23 meters long and its height difference is 6 meters.

Wikipedia: Dudzia Dziura (PL)

Dziura pod Arkadą – a cave, or rather a shelter, in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located on the eastern slope of the Kraków Gorge, on the slope descending from Upłazkowa Turnia, in the same couloir as the Arcade, the Cave above the Arcade and the Arkada Shelter, at an altitude of 1187 meters above sea level. The cave is 5.5 meters long and its height difference is 1 meter.

Wikipedia: Dziura pod Arkadą (PL)

Gładka Turnia – a small crag in the orographically right slopes of the Kraków Gorge in the Western Tatras. It is located in the south-western ridge descending from the top of Upłazkowa Turnia, slightly above Ptakowa Turnia. Kraków descends to the Gorge with a rock wall, which is limited from the left by a shallow gutter overgrown here and there with clumps of grass, and from the right by a chimney with troughs. In the wall there is a smooth slab with a rather prominent pillar falling to the south, covered with eaves from the top. This pillar led a climbing route with two lifts. The first ascent: Dariusz Stawarz and Jacek Stawarz on August 18, 1995. This peak is separated by a small west from the main south-western ridge of Upłazkowa Turnia.

Wikipedia: Gładka Turnia (PL)

Psia Cave – the largest cave on the slopes of Gubalec falling into the Kraków Gorge in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located at an altitude of 1410 meters above sea level, 180 m above the bottom of the gorge. The length of the corridors is 1076 meters, the height difference is 62 meters.

Wikipedia: Jaskinia Psia (Tatry) (PL)

Skoruszowa Cave (Kominowa) – a cave in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. It has two entrance openings located on the eastern slope of the Kraków Gorge, in the slope descending from Upłazkowa Turnia, below the Lamb Cave, at altitudes of 1236 and 1238 m above sea level. The length of the cave is 23 meters, and its denivelation is 8 meters.

Wikipedia: Jaskinia Skoruszowa (PL)

Cave nad Arkadą – a cave in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located on the eastern slope of the Kraków Gorge, on the slope descending from Upłazkowa Turnia, in the same couloir as the Arkada cave, the Hole under the Arcade and the Arkada Shelter, at an altitude of 1206 meters above sea level. The length of the cave is 21 meters, and its denivelation is 8 meters.

Wikipedia: Jaskinia nad Arkadą (PL)

Cave on the Perć River – a cave in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located in the Kraków Gorge, in a rock on the slopes of Upłazkowa Turnia, above the Cave at Perć, at an altitude of 1240 m above sea level. The length of the cave is 15 meters, and its height difference is 5.5 meters.

Wikipedia: Jaskinia nad Percią (PL)

The Cave at Perć is a cave in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located in the Kraków Gorge, on the slope descending from Upłazkowa Turnia, near the Skoruszowa Cave, below the Cave on the Perć, at an altitude of 1225 m above sea level. The length of the cave is 17 meters, and its denivelation is 3 meters.

Wikipedia: Jaskinia przy Perci (PL)

The church is a rock formation in the orographically right slopes of the Kraków Gorge in the Polish Western Tatras. It is the lower part of the Ptakowa Turnia falling to the Market Square in the Kraków Gorge, located at the end of the south-western perch of Upłazkowa Turnia. It is a vertical wall about 50 m high, in the lower part with an overhang about 8 m deep. In this overhang there is a trough about 60 m long, about 12 m high, with an eaves about 8 m deep at the top. The largest of them is about 4 m high. These are the so-called saints. The name comes from the fact that the formation, viewed from a distance, resembles a church with statues of saints. The eaves above them is called the Eaves over the Saints, and the whole formation is called "a rock formation" by Władysław Cywiński in the 3rd volume of the Tatra guide.

Wikipedia: Kościół (Wąwóz Kraków) (PL)

Mała Gawra – a cave, or rather a shelter, in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located in the Kraków Gorge, on the slope of Upłazkowa Turnia descending to the Upłazkowy Kocioł, near the Gawra Cave and the Lamb Cave, at an altitude of 1300 meters above sea level. The length of the cave is 6 meters, and its denivelation is 2 meters.

Wikipedia: Mała Gawra (PL)

Ptakowa Turnia – a crag in the orographically right slopes of the Kraków Gorge in the Western Tatras. It is located at the end of the south-western perch of Upłazkowa Turnia. It descends a partly forested and partly rocky-grassy steep slope with walls to the Market Square and the Upłazkowy Kotło in the Kraków Gorge. It is separated from the massif of Upłazkowa Turnia and the Gładka Turnia located a little higher by the Bird Pass. At the foot of Ptakowa Turnia there is an original rock formation – a large nyża with rock blocks, called the Church.

Wikipedia: Ptakowa Turnia (PL)

Town Hall - Turnia in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. Together with Turnia near her, Saturn is perfectly visible from the written clearing. The name was given by the former tourists. Built of carbonate rocks, the town hall smaller than Saturn is 1296 m a.s.l. It is located in the orographically right slopes of the Kraków gorge. From Saturn it is separated by a switch behind the town hall. Only from this switch can you go out on it without much difficulty - vertical walls fall on all other pages. There are several climbing roads in them. The pillar with a height of about 170 m high is particularly impressive. The lower part of the pillar and the 40-meter height of the shelf for the first time were Jerzy Łabęcki and Ryszard Malczyk in April 1970. The first passage of the upper part: Jerzy Farat and Ryszard Malczyk on April 12, 1981. This road, named by them "from here to eternity", contains A large accumulation of difficulties with a degree VI+.

Wikipedia: Ratusz (Tatry) (PL)

Arkada Shelter – a cave, or rather a shelter, in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located on the eastern slope of the Kraków Gorge, on the slope descending from the Upłazkowa Turnia, near the Arkada Cave, the Hole under the Arcade and the Cave above the Arcade, at an altitude of 1200 meters above sea level. The cave is horizontal and its length is 6 meters.

Wikipedia: Schron przy Arkadzie (PL)

Cracked Rift – a cave in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located in the Kraków Gorge, on the slope descending from Upłazkowa Turnia, near the Cave at Perć, at an altitude of 1230 m above sea level. The length of the cave is 11.5 meters, and its height difference is 5 meters.

Wikipedia: Spękana Szczelina (PL)

Hidden Shelter – a cave, or rather a shelter, in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located on the eastern slope of the Kraków Gorge, on the slope descending from Upłazkowa Turnia, at an altitude of 1174 meters above sea level. The length of the cave is 5 meters, and its height difference is 1 meter.

Wikipedia: Ukryty Schron (PL)

Upłazkowa Baszta – a crag in the orographically right slopes of the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. It is located in the ridge descending to the northwest from the top of Upłazkowa Turnia to the Pass behind Saturn, just above this pass. It is separated from the higher Upłazkowy Kopiniak by the Pass behind the Upłazkowa Baszta and Upłazkowe Wrótka. Between these saddles there is a small, nameless rock tooth

Wikipedia: Upłazkowa Baszta (PL)

Upłazkowa Kopa – a crag in the orographically right slopes of the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. It is located in the north-western ridge descending from the top of Upłazkowa Turnia to the Pass behind Saturn. It is located in this ridge just on the north-western side of the culmination of Upłazkowa Turnia, separated from it by the Upłazkowy Saddle.

Wikipedia: Upłazkowa Kopa (PL)

Uplazkowa Turnia - Turnia in the eastern slopes of the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. It is located in the south-western ridge departing from Równia on the inn, which through the Uphesive Turnia, Saturn and the Town Hall falls to the bottom of the Kościeliska Valley, creates the right border of the Kraków gorge over a significant length and separates it from the writing gully. Up arrears over the Karczma is separated by a Up arrears, from Saturn, a pass from Saturn. Uplaskowa Turnia is made of carbonate rocks. Watched from above, it is an inconspicuous, not much up to the grassy ridge of the Uploaded Skał group, but to the Kraków gorge it partly falls with walls, and partly a very steep slope. The relative height of the top over the bottom of the Krakow Gorge reaches 350 m. There are many caves here, including Cave with concretions of Niżnia, a hole on the West, hole under the wanta, triangular shelter, shelter in Up arrival Turnia, Up arrival, Up arrears, wet gap, cracked gap, gawra, small gawra, cave at Percia, Skoruszowa cave, cave nad percia, arkada , Shelter at the arcada, cave over the arcade, hole under the arcade, hidden shelter, lamb cave, tunnel under the Up arrival passage, mirror corridor.

Wikipedia: Upłazkowa Turnia (PL)

Upłazkowy Kopiniak – a crag in the central part of Upłazkowa Ridge in the Polish Western Tatras. Its northern wall, about 40 m high, descends to the Pisanski Żleb, while the southern wall to the Upłazkowy Kotło in the Kraków Gorge. The southern wall is about 120 m high and it is the highest wall in the entire Upłazkowa Turnia massif. Both have not yet been climbed by mountaineers. On the other hand, from Upłazkowy Przechod you can go to Upłazkowy Kopiniak without difficulty.

Wikipedia: Upłazkowy Kopiniak (PL)

Wielka Turnia – a crag in the orographically left slopes of the Kraków Gorge. It is located in the central part of the northern perch of Gubalec. The northern wall of this crag has a considerable overhang and a height of about 50 m. However, mountaineers were not interested in it. There is a hard-to-reach cave Dziura w Wielka Turnia, as well as the shelter Shelter on the Zakosista River. Above Wielka Turnia, to the top of Gubalec there is a slight, not too steep and forested protrusion, below there is a steep and forested cliff with single rocks.

Wikipedia: Wielka Turnia (Gubalec) (PL)

Arkada – a cave, or rather a shelter, in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. It has two entrance openings located on the eastern slope of the Kraków Gorge, on the slope descending from the Upłazkowa Turnia, in the same couloir as the Hole under the Arcade, the Cave above the Arcade and the Shelter at the Arcade, at an altitude of 1194 and 1201 meters above sea level. The length of the cave is 8 meters, and its denivelation is 7 meters.

Wikipedia: Arkada (jaskinia) (PL)

Baszta – a crag in the orographically left slopes of the Kraków Gorge. It is the end of the north-eastern, forested perch of Gubalec. The top of the Tower rises to a height of about 1320 m above sea level and is separated from the Gubalec perch by a shallow Saddle behind the Tower

Wikipedia: Baszta (Wąwóz Kraków) (PL)