Túry vo Vysokých Tatrách

Making tours in mountains is different from tours in the low land. It is said that High Tatras are the smallest giant mountains in the world. Despite the fact that the whole ridge of the mountains is only 25.6 km long they can be for unprepared people as dangerous as big mountains.

The most important hints are:

You need to have convenient, solid, closed leather boots with good pattern on the soles.

ALWAYS, even in the warmest summer take a spare shirt and warm sweatshirt. There may be even a snowstorm on the top. Raincoat, spare socks, eventually gloves will do a good service to you as well. Take some food (bread, conserves, chocolate), drinks (mineral water, tea) and first aid box, eventually also small torch. Pack all things to backpack, you need to have both hands free.

Packages and other garbage take with you back to the settlement.

Buy a map and study your route in advance. In Tatras the routes are marked with different colors (band labels - a horizontal stripe of appropriate color with a white stripes above and under). At the access points and crossings you will find guide-posts showing directions and the distances. The distances are shown in time units, counted for an average tourist. Do not expect that you are faster than this, it is better to count with delay.

Do not leave the marked route.

Choose a tour suitable for your physical and health condition. Do not overrate your condition. Do not underrate the pretension of terrain. Ask at the Mountain Service or in mountain chalets about current status of your trail.

Leave in the early morning to save some time of daylight. It is very dangerous to walk in the mountain terrain in the dark.

Don't hike alone.

Follow weather forecasts.

The third day in the high mountain area is critical, therefore plan smaller tour for this day.

When going to the mountain hike, always make a note to tour book in your hotel or camp, saying where are you going and when you will come back. After return confirm your presence. If you change your plan and decide to stay at another place overnight, call your hotel or camp and let them know that you are at safe place. Think how you would feel lost in the mountains knowing that searchers are looking somewhere for people who returned successfully, but did not confirmed their return.

Avoid snowfields.

Do not throw stones from the mountains.

Help people who are in emergency.

Trails

Over nearly 600 kilometers of marked trails are in the whole area of TANAP - Tatransky Narodny Park. Pretentious places are equipped with steps or strings.

All hiking trails are marked by red, blue, green or yellow signs sided with white strips.

The main trail is the red marked Magistrala, leading from Podbanske, Strbske Pleso, Hrebienok, Skalnate Pleso to the former chalet Chata pri Zelenonom plese. Magistrala leads on the southern slopes of the mountains. The trails to valleys and peaks are connected to Magistrala.

Information regarding TANAP (The High Tatras National Park) rules and updates on trail conditions, access to valleys: >>

Types of trails:

Short walks, hikes through valleys, higher-altitude tours: passes to saddles and ascents to peaks.

Horsky vodca - Mountain guide

Persons in good physical condition can hire mountain guide for tours on unmarked routes, for example a route to the highest place of Carpathian bow - Gerlachovsky stit (2655 meters), to Lomnicky stit (2632 m) and other peaks.

You can order Tatras' mountain guides services here.

Vysokohorské chaty

Vybudovali ich na obľúbených turistických trasách, ale platí aj naopak - tam, kde ich vybudovali, vznikli obľúbené pešie trasy. Poskytujú turistom občersvenie a útočisko, a obvykle aj možnosť nocľahu. Niektoré ako nocľahárne, ale všetky väčšie majú aj ubytovanie po izbách. Chaty mávajú aj svoje pečiatky a je zvykom opečiatkovať si na chate pohľadnicu.

Nasleduje zoznam chát, ktoré poskytujú nocľahy:

Majláthova chata pri Popradskom Plese (1500 m). Novo postavená v roku 2011.

Chata Popradské pleso (1500 m), bývalá Chata kapitána Morávka. Horský hotel v Mengusovskej doline.

Chata pod Rysmi v sedle Váhy (2250 m).

Horský hotel Sliezsky dom (1670 m) vo Velickej doline. Viac...

Zbojnícka chata (1960 m) vo Veľkej Studenej doline. Viac...

Zámkovského chata (1475 m) v Malej Studenej doline.

Téryho chata (2015 m) v Malej Studenej doline.

Chata pri Zelenom plese (1551 m), bývala Brnčalova chata.

Zoznam obľúbených turistických trás

From Strbske Pleso:

Strbske Pleso - Waterfall Skok in Mlynicka Dolina valley (yellow mark) and back, 3 hours.
Strbske Pleso - by rope-way to Solisko - Predne Solisko (2093 m.a.s., red) and back, 1hr. 30 min.
Strbske Pleso - Waterfall Skok in Mlynicka Dolina valley - Capie pleso - Bystre sedlo - Wahlenbergovo pleso in Furkotska Dolina valley - Strbske Pleso (yellow, red), 8 hr.
Strbske Pleso - Jamske sedlo (red) - Krivan (2494 m.a.s., blue) and back, 7 hr.
Strbske Pleso - Popradske pleso and back, (red) 3 hr.
Popradske pleso - Mengusovska Dolina - Rysy and back, 8 hr.

From Stary Smokovec:

Hrebienok - Velicke pleso (red) - Stary Smokovec (green, yellow), 4 hr. 30 min.
Hrebienok - Slavkovsky stit (red, blue) and back, 8 hr.
Hrebienok - Zbojnicka Chata in Velka Studena Dolina and back, 5 hr.
Hrebienok - Teryho Chata in Mala Studena Dolina (green, blue, red, green) and back, 6 hr.
Hrebienok - Skalnate Pleso, 2 hr.

From Tatranska Lomnica:

Tatranska Lomnica - Skalnate Pleso (green), 2 hr. 30 min.
Tatranska Lomnica, from funicular station Start - Mala Svistovka - Skalnate Pleso (green, blue), 3 hr.
Skalnate Pleso - Teryho chata chalet (red, green), 2 hr 30 min.
Skalnate Pleso - saddle under Svistovka - Chata Kezmarske Pleso (red) - Tatranska Lomnica (yellow, blue), 5 hr. 30 min.

The Tatras' Mountain Rescue Service

The Tatras' Mountain Rescue Service - Tatranska horska sluzba operates in the High Tatras from the year 1950.

People in emergency should signalise with sound or light 6 times per minute. Emergency signal to helicopter is hands raised to "V".

Phone numbers

Phone: +421-(0)52-4422820, +421-(0)52-4422855
Fax: +421-(0)52-4422855
Mobile: +421-903-624 869, EUROTEL *100
E-mail: ths@tanap.sk

Rescue stations

Podbanske, phone: 052 449 01 36

Solisko, upper station of funicular

Popradske Pleso, mountain hotel, phone: 052 449 21 77

Chalet Rysy, in Summer only, phone: 0903 181 051

Hotel Sliezsky dom, phone: 052 442 52 61

Zbojnicka chata, phone: 0903 638 000,