The Big Owl mountain is only 1,015m above sea level (3,330feet) but it is fairly nearby and it has a cool lighthouse looking observation tower built in 1906 atop of it. Whenever we feel like getting out of the house to do some moderate snow hiking, the Big Owl is our go-to destination. The views…
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Snow Hike
Even though we’re about halfway through January as of this writing, winter has been pretty modest for us in Wroclaw thus far. The temperatures have hardly dipped below freezing, snow is almost none existent, and I even rode my scooter to work a couple of times. In January! So today, on a tip from Ania’s…
Big Owl Charlie Walking
I’ve written about the Big Owl mountain in a previous post, but this time we went back with Karolina’s dog, Charlie. Charlie’s never been out on a walk further than the immediate 10km house radius, and it was his first trip in the back of the station wagon as well. Ideally we would like to start taking…
Big Owl Hiking – Wielka Sowa
Sunday we drove down to the Owl Mountain range, just about 80 miles south of Wrocław. At 1,014m (3,326ft) Big Owl is the highest peak in the aforementioned mountain range. The peak isn’t much of a hike if you take the easy route from the parking lot at the pass, which basically ends up being…
The Polish Magician 