Radešín: the trig point beyond the power line

The obvious summit of Radešín looked wrong.

A power line crosses the top, and beside it sits a small earth hump that can easily pass for the high point at first glance. On the ground it looked disturbed rather than natural, probably connected with construction around the line. A few metres into the forest I found a small concrete trig point among the trees. That quieter spot made much more sense as the summit I had come to find.

I had parked near the GPX start at 50.693927, 14.068202 and followed the old access road straight uphill. The route is almost aggressively direct. The road runs in a near-straight line toward the summit area and appears to have been surfaced in the past. A no-traffic sign stood at the bottom, but on foot there was very little to solve. My track recorded 1.5 km, 75 m of ascent and 22 minutes for the whole outing.

What surprised me was the number of people. For such a minor hill, Radešín felt oddly busy, with walkers using the power-line corridor and the woods around the top. The climb itself took only about twelve minutes, followed by a short step off the road into leaf-covered forest to investigate the summit.

The trig point is hardly dramatic: concrete among trunks, leaves and a few rocks. That was precisely why finding it was satisfying. The more conspicuous mound under the pylons demanded attention; the less obvious point in the trees felt like the better answer.

Late-afternoon light stretched across the open ground, with wooded ridges layered beyond and the country north of Ústí nad Labem opening around the power-line corridor. Radešín is not remote or pristine. Forest, farmland, pylons, tracks and villages sit close together, but in the warm March light the slightly untidy landscape worked rather well.

There is more history under the trees than the summit suggests. Local municipal material describes Radešín as a forested trachyte hill and records a prehistoric hillfort on the summit. Neither feature announces itself during this short climb, but both add useful context to what otherwise looks like a very practical piece of wooded high ground.

I returned by the same road and finished shortly after 16:09. This was my sixth summit of the day, but its place in the sequence mattered less than its small puzzle: an artificial-looking hump under the power line, then a modest trig point hidden just far enough into the forest to reward checking. Twenty-two minutes was plenty.