My Trips in the Carpathians

Photo Reports

By Roads and Paths of the Carpathians (2003)

Walk Rebrovach - Dil (2007)
one day walk by wild plai of Rebrovach mountain ridge to cheerful polonyna Dil (the 28th of April)

• Part #1 - from ski jump complex (settlement Vorokhta) by Rebrovach mountain ridge to polonyna Dil
• Part #2 - from polonyna Dil through Lysa Hora to Vorokhta

Trip Lazeshchyna - Petros (2007)
two days trip to mountain Petros from settlement Lazeshchyna through tourist shelter Kozmeshchyk
(the 28-29th of July)

• Part #1 - by diesel train 'Chervona Ruta' from Frankivsk to Lazeshchyna
• Part #2 - from railway station Lazeshchyna to tourist shelter Kozmeshchyk
• Part #3 - from Kozmeshchyk to the foot of mountain Petros
• Part #4 - ascent to Petros

Trip Bukovyna - Pid-Berdy (2010)
two days trip to polonyna Bukovyna and to mountain Pid-Berdy (the 3-4th of May)

• Part #1 - by diesel train from Ivano-Frankivsk to railway station Voronenko
• Part #2 - from station Voronenko to polonyna Bukovyna
• Part #3 - Leisure-time on polonyna Bukovyna
• Part #4 - from polonyna Bukovyna to mountain Pid-Berdy
• Part #5 - evening on polonyna Bukovyna
• Part #6 - morning on polonyna Bukovyna
• Part #7 - from polonyna Bukovyna to railway station Voronenko
• Part #8 - by train to Ivano-Frankivsk

Photo Album

By Roads and Paths of the Carpathians (2003)
Walk Rebrovach - Dil (2007)
Trip Lazeshchyna - Petros (2007)
Trip Bukovyna - Pid-Berdy (2010)

Our Hutsul-English Dictionary :)

¹⁾ plai - Hutsul ethnic name for path in highlands
²⁾ polonyna - Hutsul ethnic name for alpine meadow
³⁾ smereka - Hutsul ethnic name for spruce
⁴⁾ kolyba - Hutsul ethnic name for house (hut) of shepherds
⁵⁾ staia - Hutsul ethnic name for buildings for sheep
⁶⁾ otara - Hutsul ethnic name for herd of sheep
⁷⁾ budz - delicious kind of Hutsul salty cheese
⁸⁾ vurda - another delicious kind of Hutsul raw cheese specially fermented
⁹⁾ vatra - Hutsul ethnic name for bonfire