Thirty metres beyond the map pin on Říčej
A 1.6 km forest out-and-back above Chudenice where the mapped summit looked slightly low, so I continued about 30 m to an old survey remnant and a more convincing natural high point.
The map said the summit was here. The ground seemed to disagree by about 30 metres. That small mismatch became the whole point of Říčej: a very short forest walk where reaching the top was easy, but deciding exactly where the top sat required a little more attention.
On this visit I could drive to a forest-road junction on the west-northwest side of the hill, reducing the outing to a 1.6 km out-and-back. What appeared on the map as a road was, on the ground, an old forest track narrowing to a path, but it remained easy to follow through open beech woodland.
Higher on the ridge, thinning let more March sunlight into the woods. Local natural-history sources describe Říčej as the highest of the indistinct summits in this part of the Branžovský hvozd forest complex, which fits the terrain well: the upper ridge is broad and wooded, with no theatrical apex waiting at the end of the track.
Thirty metres beyond the pin
About fifteen minutes after leaving the car, I reached the mapped summit area. The point shown on my map seemed slightly lower than nearby ground, so I kept walking along the broad crest. Roughly 30 m farther on I found a small old survey remnant set into the ground and a red-and-white pipe leaning against a tree. The surrounding ground appeared marginally higher and felt like the more convincing natural summit.
My highest recorded GPS point was 694.7 m at 49.458901, 13.213208, close to this spot. I treated that as supporting evidence rather than survey-grade proof. Handheld GPS is too approximate to settle a subtle wooded summit by itself, but in this case the reading agreed with what the terrain seemed to show.
The practical solution was simpler than the measurement problem: I visited both the mapped point and the nearby survey remnant.
There was no tower, summit sign or open panorama, and none was needed. The interest came from reading a few metres of forest floor rather than from summit furniture.
Common hepatica (Hepatica nobilis) was flowering through the leaf litter beside the route. The blue-violet flowers were the clearest sign that winter was giving way and a welcome change from the otherwise brown March forest.
After checking both points, I followed the same track back. The whole outing took about 30 minutes. On the Plzeň day, Říčej did not need a bigger story than that: a quiet beech forest, blue hepatica and 30 extra metres of walking before the summit felt right.
Eight Czech P100s around Plzeň in one day