Szczyrk Mountain Resort
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2 reviews
September 21, 2020
for 2020, by far the best ski resort in Poland (Zakopane is not even close to the ski infrastructure).
The complex consists of 3 lower stations - the old one (COS) and the new ones (gondola and Solisko), together it is more than 30 km of trails.
It's really bad on the old part, relatively modern lifts, but very unsuccessful trails - a lot of bottlenecks or places where you have to push with sticks (snowboarders unfasten).
Pros: everything is fine at the new stations - wide well-groomed trails, modern lifts (there is a gondola), picturesque views, a panoramic restaurant was built at the upper station of the gondola in winter 2020. Cheap prices for ski passes (20-24 euros/day), food, etc. A lot of simple and medium trails are very convenient for beginners and advanced, there is a sparse forest - a paradise for novice freeriders.
Cons: the total drop is from 600 to 1300 mm, although the main skating is from 600 to 1000. The mountains are low, because of this there is a risk of rain, especially on New Year's Eve. There are few hotels, modern units, free parking is small and clogged early, for the rest there are paid parking. It is far from the airports, it is very inconvenient to get there, the resort is for motorists.
Mostly local and eastern Europe ride, and about a third are Russian speakers from Lithuania, Kaliningrad, Belarus, Ukraine, and "mainland" Russia. The service staff in the mass knows English very poorly, only the older generation knows Russian, but there are already few of them in the service sector. The situation is helped out by the Zarobitchan brothers, who massively work as waiters and dishwashers for the gentlemen.
In general, the atmosphere is friendly, I recommend it for beginners.
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February 14, 2020
The general status of the "Mountain of Death"
Remember, your good driving level gives you only a slight advantage to survive in this meat grinder.
The trails are unkempt, in addition to hillocks and icy bald patches, there are many stones and cobblestones. If you don't mind your equipment, go ahead.
The prices for skipass are overpriced. The queues for the lifts are huge, the same number of people on the track. To summarize: "you stand in queues more than you ride." During the descent, you constantly have a paranoid feeling that someone is going to fly into you from behind... and if it doesn't fly in, then you can just get off the track and decompose like a king. In addition to the dense flow of potential patients of the trauma department, during the descent, snow cannons will hit you right in the face, which in general is in line with the rules of survival on the tracks in shchirka. The tracks are narrow, fences are only in places, and at the bottom there is an abyss with ominous landscapes - stumps and withered trees all around. In normal resorts, the poles of the lifts are surrounded by mats on all sides and an enclosing grid is placed along the periphery. Here, on some tracks, there are just bare iron poles, eager for your embrace (they thought of putting these bare bones on one lumpy, icy black highway - an instant funeral)
If you make it to the free parking, you're lucky. There will always be "kind" guys nearby who have opened their own private business in their yard, putting up a sign "parking"
The total skating rink lasts up to 16 hours. If you want to ride on, wait 2 hours. Then buy more evening skiing (it costs half a day ski pass) and ride for 3 hours only on 2 illuminated trails. After 15 hours, the survival game begins - everyone begins to actively move down to the lifts, dramatically increasing the density of already busy traffic on the tracks. The highlight of the game is given by huge retractors, which are launched during rush hour (well, figli... the drivers of the "tanks" also want to go home early)
Survived in shchirka - prepare documents for the order
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