Kielik, Mountain summit in Lesser Beskids, Poland.
Kielik is a forested summit of 960 m in the Sidzina area of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, within the Bystra-Sidzina commune. It forms part of the south-eastern arm of Policy, which descends through Czernic, Przełęcz Zubrzycka, Grelka, Kiełek and Brożek to the Bystrzanka valley. Only its south-eastern foothills are treeless, occupied by fields and buildings of Sidzina.
Kiełek lies in the south-eastern arm of the Policy range, which descends through Czernic, Przełęcz Zubrzycka, Grelka, Kiełek and Brożek to the Bystrzanka valley. Jerzy Kondracki's physiogeographic regionalisation placed it as the highest summit of the Beskid Orawsko-Podhalański; a 2018 regionalisation assigns it instead to the Pogórze Orawsko-Jordanowskie.
The name Kiełek means "sprout" or "shoot" in Polish, fitting a wooded hill above Sidzina. The only open ground is on the south-eastern lower slopes, where cultivated fields and the buildings of Sidzina reach up the mountainside; the rest of the summit is covered by forest.
No marked hiking trail leads through Kiełek, so the summit is reached only by unmarked paths; the south-western slopes drop to the Sidzinka valley and the north-western ones to Ciśniawka. The bare south-eastern foothills above Sidzina, with fields and buildings, are the most open approach.
Kiełek is almost entirely forested; only its south-eastern foothills are treeless, taken up by fields and buildings of Sidzina. No marked tourist trail crosses the summit, so it is reached only by unmarked paths.
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