Stożek Wielki, Mountain summit in Silesian Beskids, Czech Republic.
Stożek Wielki is a mountain summit in the Silesian Beskids reaching 978 meters in elevation. Steep slopes on the western, northern, and eastern sides are covered with beech and coniferous forests.
The mountain hut below the summit opened on 9 July 1922, built on the initiative of the Polish Touristic Society "Beskid" and its activists Józef Londzin and Jan Galicz. It was the first hut in the Polish Silesian Beskids erected by Poles, after earlier shelters built by the Beskidenverein. A tourist border crossing on the summit was abolished in 2007 when both countries joined Schengen.
The name Stożek Wielki means "big cone", after the mountain's regular conical profile seen from the north. The PTTK Stożek hut just below the summit, opened on 9 July 1922, was the first mountain hut built by Poles in the Polish Silesian Beskids; earlier huts were built by the Beskidenverein.
Marked hiking trails provide access from both the Czech and Polish sides of the mountain. A chairlift also serves winter sports visitors in the snow season.
Bouldering here is done on ten rock blocks of 2–3 m on the western slope, where 21 boulder problems from 4 to 7a+ on the French scale have been set. The blocks lie at roughly 870–890 m, below a rock wall with towers and overhangs.
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