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Worth mentioning, last year there was gonna be one more national park in Poland (Lower Oder Valley National Park) but they failed to establish it

>>2859552
anon, now it's winter.

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>>2859637
And?

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>>2859637
you can walk in winter

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>>2859552
Quite an unusual thread, but here I go.
the most popular hike here is the National Blue Trail, which goes through the most iconic natural parts of the country. There are also the South Transdanubian, and the Great Plain blue trails.
It's simple, you just have to follow the blue line symbol, and you can walk around the entire country. Each trail has a stamping book, where you collect the official, unique stamps found throughout the trail (160 on the national one I think). If you get all of them (with dates of when you completed them), you get an enamel pin. If you complete all three, then you get a special pin.
It might be worth mentioning that the NBT's eastern route is part of the greater Eisenach-Budapest route.

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>>2859552
here is the route i took when i backpaked that part of europe

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>>2859552
Too many options to hike, too little time to talk.

>>2859643
No bugs, bears mostly asleep, yeah it may be worth it though higher chance to freeze over compared to rest of the year.

Anyway, this year I would like to finish rest of the Slovenský kras national park. Make some hikes in High Tatras and Veľká Fatra.
And a lot of smaller hikes across the western and central Slovakia (depending on work schedule, and weather, railway infrastructure reconstructions, foraging possibilities and what not).

Still not decided if I will be willing to get a tent/sleeping bag four outdoor sleeping (I can survive night with bad sleep due to some back pain problems, but not sure if I can survive night visit by a bear).

>>2859814
That's nice. I'll be working in Žilina for a while in the next few months. I plan to stay there for a while, as I've never had a real chance to explore that amazing landscapes there. I'm Čehún btw, so don't worry, bear eat us first

>>2859850
Žilina is a good starting point - hills or mountains, you will have a hard time to decide where to go :)

as for bears, if I remember correctly, only on victim was foreigner - belarusian. Still it is a good idea to have mountain rescue insurance (something like 20 eur/year)

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>>2859814
nice. I plan to do Mala Fatra somewhere early autumn. either with tent or sleeping in Chata pod Chlebom.

>>2859916
Not many hikes in "Krivánska" Malá Fatra, as you can see - only 2 to be exact (one of them in early October from Kraľovany zastávka via Osnice and Medzihole pass to Zázrivá - too cold and too little time to manage chain secured trail up to the Veľký Rozsute. Also first time I have seen bear footprints for a few hundreds of meters on hiking trail in Bystrička valey).

As a light sleeper I am not a big fan of mountain cabins with shared rooms, so no idea how it looks like in Chata pod Chlebom.

Also, you probably know it, from march to june, some trails on your route are closed.
npmalafatra.sk/navstevnici/uzavery-turistickych-chodnikov