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Babia Góra
1725 m a.s.l.
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Diablak and the Mother of Bad Weather
The highest summit of the massif is Diablak – in German Teufelspitze, the Devil’s Peak. Because of its very changeable weather Babia Góra was called the Mother of Bad Weather or the Fickle One, and one legend says it is a heap of stones that a giant woman poured out in front of her cottage.
Source: Polish Wikipedia – Babia Góra (CC BY-SA)
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Vegetation zones
It is the only massif in the Polish Beskids with a high-mountain character. Its northern slopes keep the full sequence of vegetation zones – from remnants of the Carpathian primeval forest to the only natural alpine meadow zone in the Beskids. A national park was founded here in 1954, and in 1977 UNESCO added it to the world list of biosphere reserves.
Source: Polish Wikipedia – Babia Góra (CC BY-SA)
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Ten kilometres of ridge
Babia Góra is a solitary, short range – only about 10 km long – and, after the Tatras, the most uplifted area of Poland. From the east rise Sokolica, Kępa and Gówniak, then Diablak in the middle, and beyond the Brona pass (1,408 m) Mała Babia Góra, also called Cyl (1,517 m). The northern slopes fall steeply, in places in cliffs, scored by gullies and rock debris; the southern ones descend much more gently.
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Relief
The lowest point in the 8 × 8 km square around the summit lies at 695 m a.s.l. – 1,030 m below the peak. Terrain on the Slovak side of the border comes from the ÚGKK SR model, shifted to match the GUGiK data at the border.
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Trails
26 marked trails run through the 8 × 8 km square. 6 trails lead to the summit itself: 1 red, 1 blue, 2 green and 2 yellow.
- red4
- blue5
- green8
- yellow7
- black2
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The summit
Babia Góra (1725 m a.s.l.) represents the Beskid Żywiecki range in the Crown of Polish Mountains.