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2026
Late-afternoon view beneath dramatic clouds from the summit of Góra Świętego Jerzego above Strzegom.
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Range Bohemian Ranges

Góra Świętego Jerzego or Krzyżowa Góra?

Two neighbouring summits above Strzegom carry a modern naming mismatch: Góra Świętego Jerzego on the west, Góra Krzyżowa / Krzyżatka on the east. Peakbagger's point is right; its name probably is not.

354 mP 111.6 mI 3.02 km
Leaf-covered forest track climbing through mixed woodland on Jedlice.
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Jedlice, highest in the Strzegom Hills but without a view

A barricaded start and fading forest roads made Jedlice harder to find than to climb. The reward was not a view but confirmation that this quiet wooded point is the highest summit in the Strzegom Hills.

354 mP 120.7 mI 18.73 km
Modern steel observation tower rising above trees on the summit of Trójgarb.
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A P100 stop on Trójgarb while crossing Poland

Trójgarb interrupted a routine drive across Poland: one unvisited P100, a compact forest climb and a striking triangular tower that finally opened the surrounding hills beyond the trees.

778.3 mP 208.7 mI 4.97 km
Narrow path through leafless woodland on Doubrava’s upper ridge.
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Eight Czech P100s around Plzeň in one day

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.

133.9 km+749 m
Town lights beyond dark conifers under a pale evening sky from Bambule.
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Finding Bambule’s true summit at dusk

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.

659 mP 136 mI 9.78 km
Stone cairn and red-and-white survey pole on the broad wooded summit of Stramchyně in early spring.
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Stramchyně gets a little higher every year

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.

543 mP 119 mI 2.67 km
Wooded conical hill of Tuhošť rising above open fields and houses near Mezihoří.
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Bronze Age ramparts beneath Tuhošť

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.

601 mP 125 mI 2.16 km
Wooded Běleč summit with a white summit sign, picnic table and concrete marker among leafless trees.
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Běleč’s 1938 summit marker above Švihov

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.

712 mP 210 mI 5.73 km
Sunlit forest track through leafless beech woods on Říčej.
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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.

695 mP 133 mI 2.86 km
Paragliders on a grassy launch below Doubrava, with an orange canopy overhead and fields in the distance.
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Paragliders below Cold War radar on Doubrava

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.

727 mP 199 mI 8.57 km
Grassy forest road on Velký Bítov with a clearing and distant low ridges under a partly cloudy sky.
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Do not turn around at the cross on Velký Bítov

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.

713 mP 117 mI 4 km
Open grassy clearing and bare trees on Koráb’s eastern ridge beneath a blue March sky.
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The real summit beyond Koráb’s lookout tower

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.

776 mP 240 mI 15.38 km
Sandstone cliffs and mixed forest on Děčínský Sněžník with hazy table mountains on the horizon.
Trip

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Eight summits around Ústí nad Labem in one day

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.

83.7 km+2622 m
Two dark conical hills silhouetted against a pale pink and blue evening sky.
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Vaňovský vrch at the end of an eight-summit day

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.

561 mP 235 mI 2.85 km
Red-and-white communications tower behind bare trees on the wooded summit ridge of Střížovický vrch.
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The two summits of Střížovický vrch

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.

346 mP 108 mI 4.61 km
Late-afternoon sunlight across open fields and wooded hills below Radešín.
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Radešín’s trig point behind the power-line clearing

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.

550 mP 106 mI 5.45 km
Rock outcrops and a small concrete marker on the leaf-covered wooded summit of Vysoký kámen.
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Thirteen minutes to the rocks of Vysoký kámen

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.

494 mP 132 mI 4.89 km
Wide view from open summit pasture across wooded hills, scattered settlements and a distant conical peak.
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A summit barbecue on Javorský vrch

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.

620 mP 217 mI 6.68 km
Lotarův vrch above a broad dry meadow, with leafless forest on its slopes under a clear blue sky.
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A wooden dragon below Lotarův vrch

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.

509 mP 125 mI 3.56 km
Bare deciduous woodland and pale grass on a sunlit clearing below Chmelník, with a rounded wooded ridge beyond.
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Chmelník and the lookout tower lost in 1914

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.

508 mP 134 mI 1.5 km
Sandstone cliff edge and a leafless tree overlooking hazy forested hills from Děčínský Sněžník.
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The summit puzzle on Děčínský Sněžník

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.

724 mP 122 mI 23.45 km
2023