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Eight short P100 walks around Plzeň became a full day of summit-finding: obvious towers were not always on the correct bump, and the final hill, Bambule, arrived with the last light.
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A 1 km dusk outing above Strašice, where a bad shortcut through young spruce led to a quiet true summit, wartime bomb history and the town lighting up below.
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A short walk above Červené Poříčí to a 543 m summit where locals carry stones uphill, a painted penguin sits on the cairn and the mountain jokingly keeps growing.
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Ten minutes above Švihov, a thermometer and 1940 survey marker occupy a wooded summit enclosed by much older earthworks: the remains of a late-Bronze-Age hillfort.
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A concrete survey block stamped 1938 stands beside Běleč’s summit picnic table. The short forest walk also crosses protected old woodland on a hill remembered locally as a wartime refuge.
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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.
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A 1.4 km visit to Velká Doubrava, where 19th-century surveying, Cold War radar remains and an active paragliding launch share one unusually busy 727 m summit.
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Velký Bítov’s cross, antenna and picnic table make the lower southern bump look conclusive. The mapped 713 m summit is quieter and farther north, beside the remains of old triangulation.
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Visitors drive to Koráb’s lookout tower and busy western top. My P100 objective lay farther east, reached by a 4 km ridge walk linking the mountain’s public summit with its quieter natural counterpart.
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Around Ústí nad Labem, eight short summits produced eight different experiences: sandstone edges, mismatched map pins, a barbecue on one top and fading light on the last.
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After seven contrasting summits around Ústí nad Labem, Vaňovský vrch offered the quietest ending: deer in the forest, a modest cairn and the volcanic hills above the Elbe fading into dusk.
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A paved city-edge ridge above Ústí nad Labem mixed dog walkers, cyclists and a hot-air balloon with an awkward summit question: the named 332 m summit by the tower or the separate 346 m P100 high point.
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The obvious crest of Radešín had been disturbed by a power-line clearing. The real summit evidence waited just inside the woods: a less conspicuous trig point and warm late-afternoon views across the surrounding hills.
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Thirteen minutes after leaving the car, I reached Vysoký kámen’s rocky wooded crown. Its small concrete marker and bare March forest made this 1.2 km out-and-back brief, definite and unexpectedly tidy.
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A direct grassy climb above Javory reached a broad, lightly marked pasture summit with wide views back across the day’s earlier hills and one unexpected feature: a couple, a dog and a barbecue.
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The summit of Lotarův vrch was unusually decisive after Chmelník’s competing bumps. Beyond its cairn, the route opened towards Děčín and ended beside a carved wooden dragon by the road.
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Chmelník’s wooded top presented three plausible summit bumps and the remains of a larger story: a lookout tower lost after a landslide here in 1914.
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A compact loop across Czechia’s highest table mountain, where the mapped summit looked less convincing than a nearby sandstone outcrop and an 1864 lookout tower carries an unexpected piece of television history.
