Jedlice: highest in the Strzegom Hills, without a view

By the following afternoon I had left Warsaw behind and was in the Strzegom Hills. Jedlice began with a barricade: the roadside parking place I had marked was closed, so I turned onto the first forest road and left the car about 50 metres in.

That awkward start was more dramatic than the summit itself. A 2023 review using Poland's digital terrain model identifies Jedlice, at about 355 metres, as the highest summit of the Wzgórza Strzegomskie. My GPX reached 354 metres, an entirely ordinary difference for consumer GPS. The remeasurement put this quiet hill just above the better-known summits closer to Strzegom. On the ground, almost nothing announces that this is the range high point.

I tried to follow the forest roads shown on the map. They soon thinned out and effectively disappeared into a path, which matched the broader problem here: no marked trail leads to the actual summit. After the first bump I dropped a few metres and climbed roughly another 20 metres to the top. There was no panorama waiting there. The summit evidence was much more modest: labels on a tree, a low pile of rocks, a marker and a little litter, with dense woodland closing off every direction.

For the descent I chose a different line.

The whole loop came to 1.9 kilometres, 107 metres of ascent and 26 minutes. Back at the car, I drove on to Góra Świętego Jerzego above Strzegom. Jedlice had earned its place in the day not with a view or a dramatic summit, but with a barricaded start, disappearing map roads and a high point almost hidden in plain sight.