
This is Marcin Sokołowski's
private page
This page is mainly devoted to my private hobby which is concerned on
any kind of mountain activity from tourism to climbing.
Recently
I do not have to much time for it but at least once a
year I
go to mountains. I am member of Warsaw Climbing Club ( KWW )
Here is short list of my mountain activity ( photos will be added soon
... ) :
1990 - First time in Tatra mountains , only on Polish side :
Czerwone Wierchy, Orla Perć, Rysy
1995 - First time climbing in Polish rocks
Big
trip trough West Tatras :
Whole main ridge from Slovakia to Kasprowy Wierch was done, together
with Przemek Goraj and Marcin Wąsikowski
1997 - First time in Alps
The plan was to climbe Matterhorn ( 4478 m) and Mont Blanc (4808 m),
finally we succeeded only in climbing Breithorn (4164 m)
which was supposed to be acclimatization route. However due to bad
weather
conditions it was not possible to climb Matterhorn
( from Italian side, in fact Monte Cervinio ), we tried twice in
both times bad weather stopped us in the second hut
and we wait
for improvements but when food was finished we had to go
down ... :-(
The trip to Alps was done by hitch-hiking
1998 - First time in Caucasian Mountains
The plan was to climb Kazbek in Georgia , but in the train ( 3 days
trip - it is adventure itself ... ) we were warned that time is not
good
due to terrorism, bombs etc ... ( in fact second Czeczenian war started
just after our return ), so finally we went to Dombaj region
which is in West Caucas and not so big as East Caucas , but also very
beautiful.
We climb several mountains , peak KAP - Komuniteskij Austrickiej Partii
and then we went to Bezingi were we climbed
Ukiu (4334
m ) and Liavier ( 4355m) . Bezingi Valley gives a filling
of really HUGE
mountains ...
Beautiful mountains , very wild and dangerous ... But then you can
drink beer in Piatigorsk and everything is fine again
... - working to much ... :-( , only some climbs in Polish Rocks (
Rzędkowice , Podlesice )
2003 - back to Matterhorn ...
Team : Przemek Goraj ( Grand Father ) , Piotr Mutrynowski ( vel Mutryn
), Krzys Jasek ( Kris ) , Ela
and Me ( Sokol / Falcon )
and again weather conditions are bad, but our condition either not very
good. We have only one week so we decide not to
wait for good weather under Matt but go to Monte Rose and climb Punta
Gniffetti ( 4556 m ).
Unfortunately one week is
much to short time for any mountain activity unless you are perfectly
prepared for effort ...
2004 - back in Alps
Team
: Przemek Goraj, Krzys Jasek ( Kris ) , Ela and Sokol
Alps
seem to be good choice when you have 4 people and a car , this is 20
hours driving from Warsaw. So we started on summer camp
of
KWW. As acclimatization we climbed Gran Paradiso ( 4060 m ) - the
easiest one. Then weather was very bad so we moved to
Finale Ligure to
make rock climbing and this was good choice , it is at the Ligurian Sea
, much better then snows of Monte Bianco :-)
But
after few days we came back to Alps , and tried Monte Bianco , but
weather was not good , finally we did not climb almost
anything but it was one of best trips I had.
2005 -
Paclenica in may :
Team : Przemek Goraj ( temporary Max Kolonko ) , Krzys Jasek (
temporary Romantic or simply Roman ) and Justyna
Ela and Sokol and many people from KWW
This year we went to Paclenica to make some rock climbing
and the best route was Velobitaski ( 6a+ ) , it was really nice.
Tatra Mountains :
Just four days in my favorite Tatra mountains ( fifth time on Rysy )
good preparation for ...
Dolomity :
Team : Przemek Goraj ( temporary Max Kolonko ) , Krzys Jasek (
again Kris ) , Ela i Sokol
This year we decided to go to Dolomity and make some via
ferratas and it was perfect choice. We did some really nice via
ferratas
( difficulty in brackets in 6 degree scale ) :
- Giovani Lippella - on
Tofana di Rozes ( 4 )
- Albino- Michielli Strobel -
Punta Fiames ( 4 )
- Inerkofel on Monte
Paterno - near to famous Tre Cima Grande di Lavaredo ( 3 )
- Giuseppe Olivieri -
to Punta Anna and Tofana di Mezo ( 5 )
Dolomity is a good choice even for a week , it is
quite close , only 16-20 hours of driving from Warsaw, it is possible
to make normal tourism
Some photos are available on Kris
page
2006 -
Skiing in
Slovakia :
Team : Przemek Goraj, Ela i Marcin Sokolowscy,
Agnieszka
It was a very
nice come back to Zuberec/Habovka
region of West Tatras in Slovakia,
10 years ago we have already been there in
different group.
Very nice region for skiing almost no
people even during weekend, maybe due to Adam Malysz in Zakopane.
Weather was
perfect we could see Rohacze , Wolowiec , Grzes and other mountatins,
we were skiing up to 16:00 and later
taking baths in warm springs in Oravice -
perfect for muscles, but swiming pool was opened this is really good
when air
temperature
is -15 degrees !!!
Then supper and single scrable game and sleeping
unitl next day of skiing , fortunatly it were only 3 days otherwise I
would not survive this.
Last day we
spent on Chopok.
Climbing via
ferratas in Dolomites and Arco ( August 2006 ) :
Team : Kris, Justyna, Ela and Me
The weather was not very good in August 2006, it was very wet ...
But when we arrived to Cortina it was quite a good weather and we could
climbe very easy
ferrata Sentiero Olivieri, it was just for the begining and
for Justyna to get used to ferratas. Next day we climbed ... near the
Olimpia camping. We were strong
and in good shape so on the third day we
could face famous vis ferrata Tomaselli and it was really exiciting with
a lot of air under the legs ...
Wow that was really exiciting !
At the 2 PM we finished and rest of the day we were experimenting with
water black-bag to have hot shower, but the Sun was
not strong enough, so we
had cold shower instead ...
Then the weather has crashed and it started to rain, so we moved to Arco.
In Arco we were making rock
climbing, swiming in the swiming pool and eating
a log of ice cream ... Ice cream in Arco is perfect.
I also climbed some ferratas, one was really hard it was ... .
Finally coming back to Poland we lost the way thanks to GPS navigating
system, but this is another story ...
2007 -
Skiing in
Kaprum ( 20070211-20070218 ) :
Team : Przemek, Kasia, Kris, Justyna, Ela and Me
It was very nice week
we had 2 days of perfect weather. We were skiing in Kitzbuhel region,
Kaprum and in Zell am See. Very, very, very good.
I like Tirolen Grostl it is very nice meal, I have to do it myself.
Photos coming soon ...
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