morski oko, who needs the alps.

Well had a great day today, and have a big smile on my face.
Went up to Morski Oko which is a 8km walk up a road, alternatively you can get a ride up in a horse drawn cart. not exactly my style though.
From there I went over towards a couple of higher lakes (Predni staw Polski and Wielki Straw Polski ) which involved one and half hours trudging up the hillside above the pine, through snow which was knee deep in places.
UnfortunatelyI didn't get many good pics as the sky stopped overcast until i started heading down, when it did finaly clear the view up to Kozi Wierch and surrounding peaks made the trip.

Probably did about 20+km and was racing against the setting sun which hung on the horizon as i rushed to get back down to the main track and out to the car before it eventually vanished behind the Tatras and the darkness crept up through the forest's and onto the peaks.
I felt like a child at christmas running down the hillside and throught the pine forest's beneath, glissading over the snow and jumping branches which had succumbed from gravity and the weight of snow deposited on them.

The scenery was awsome, like somthing out Lewis' cronicals of Narnia with thick pine forests branches heavliy laden bowing down over the path and the Tatras coverd in fresh snow, wooden mountin huts sat next to tranquil tarns and bubbling streams.
I wish i had more time to exsplore this wonderland and I'll definatily be coming back here. perhaps with ice tools to tackle some of the formidable looking buttresses'. but im content for now.... i think.