Malý Smrk, Mountain summit in Moravian-Silesian Beskids, Czech Republic.
Malý Smrk is a summit of 1,173 m in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids, on the eastern spur of the Smrk massif, 3 km south of Ostravice and 2 km west of the Šance reservoir. Its top has dead, slowly regenerating forest damaged by air pollution, and no marked trail reaches it: three marked routes meet in the saddle below, from where an unmarked path leads 250 m east-northeast to the top.
The summit forests were severely damaged by air pollution in the second half of the 20th century, leaving mostly dead stands that are now gradually regenerating. The summit lies on the eastern spur of the Smrk massif, 3 km south of Ostravice and 2 km west of the Šance reservoir.
The mountain lies in the Smrk massif, whose blueberry-rich slopes are traditionally visited by local pickers despite the strict protection of the reserve. The name Smrk refers to the spruce forests that dominate here, and the dead, slowly regenerating stands near the top recall the air pollution that damaged them.
No marked trail reaches the summit itself; three marked routes (red from Ostravice, blue from Staré Hamry, yellow from the Šance reservoir) meet at the saddle below Smrk. From there an unmarked path leads about 250 m east-northeast to the top.
The Malý Smrk nature reserve lies on the mountain's southern slope, not on the summit, and protects spruce forest mixed with beech, fir, rowan and maple. In the saddle between Malý Smrk and Smrk rises the Bučací potok, whose Bučací waterfalls drop about 40 m in total and have been a 35 ha reserve since 2004.
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