Bradavica

Getting There

FROM SLOVAKIAN SIDE:

The major city in this area is Poprad, where you can get by bus or train. From Poprad there is a lot of buses and trains to Starý Smokovec (13km) at the foot of Tatra:
train time table
bus time table
train time table from Poprad to Starý Smokovec Tatranská elektrická železnica

Maps of Starý Smokovec and Tatranská Lomnica
From Starý Smokovec take a Tatranská elektrická železnica (better) or bus to Tatranská Polianka.

FROM POLISH SIDE:

The best point to stars the journey is Zakopane – the biggest town on Polish side of Tatra Mountains. You can get there from Kraków by bus (most recommended), car or train:
By bus: there are a lot of buses from Kraków to Zakopane - time table of PKS and private lines Frey and Szwagropol.
By train: the road is much longer and dearer than by bus - time table from Kraków 0.00-11.59 a.m., 12.00-11.59 p.m. and from Zakopane.
By car: from Kraków take a road number 7 to Chyżne and follow it to Rabka. Here this road turn right to Chyżne, but you follow still straight a head in south direction by road number 95. In Poronin 5 km before Zakopane turn left (east) to border crossing point in Łysa Polana.

From Zakopane: Take a bus to Polana Palenica (time table of PKS, in high season there are a lot of private buses, too – a station is opposite to PKS) and get off in Łysa Polana / Lysá Pol’ana (Attention! private buses sometimes has a direction-board “Morskie Oko”). Cross the polish-slovakian border . Bus station on Slovakian side is about 100m after border crossing point on the right. Take a bus to Poprad, which goes through Starý Smokovec (time table).

From Starý Smokovec take a Tatranská elektrická železnica (better) or bus to Tatranská Polianka.

IN MOUNTAIN:
From Tatranská Polianka: take a green-marked trail leading to Sliezsky Dom Chalet (about 2 h 30 min).
You can get here directly from Starý Smokovec, too: first take a yellow-marked trail in Sliezsky Dom direction and follow it to the end (2 h 45 min). When you reach it follow a green-marked trail to Sliezsky Dom (15 min).

Routes overview

Tetmajer's route - long, but one of the most beautiful route on Bradavica with excellents views
By Granatová Lávka - shorter route, but last part a bit complicated. Much easier to finde in opposit direction.

CLIMBINGS ROUTES

Granátova stena - it is the west wall of Vel’ká Granátova Veža / Wielka Granacka Baszta in Velické Granáty ridge
general TOPO
Approach: from Sliezsky Dom take a green-marked trail leading on Pol'sky Hreben and follow it to Kvetnicove Pleso. A bit after it turn right from marked rout and walk up through grass and scree upright under the wall (about 45 min).
south-west wall:
1. Left rib (IV) 4h
2. By left part of wall (IV) 3-4h
3. Left pillar (IV+) 4h
4. Superdiretissima (V+, A0),
5. Ľavým zárezom z kotla (IV) 3-4h.
6. Gálfy - Kurilla (V,V+) 5h.
7. Direttissima (V+,A2,RP:6+) 13h. TOPO
8. Cesta horských vodcov (Mountain guides’ rout) (V-VI,A1) 7h. TOPO
9. Tatarkova cesta (V+) 4-5h.
10. Kriššákova cesta (by right depressia) (V) 3h. TOPO
11. Right pillar (IV, V) 3h TOPO
12. Granátový Mních (III-IV,miesto VI,A1) 2h.
13. Right rib (IV) 5h

Velická Stena - it is the west wall of Dvojitá Veža / Dwoista Turnia, the last south crag in Velické Granáty ridge
south-west wall
Approach: from Sliezsky Dom take a green-marked trail leading on Pol'sky Hreben and follow it to Večný Dažď / Mokra Wanta („wet outcrop”) – the first step of valley over chalet. Here turn right to a couloir and climb up by it to a grassy cirque under our wall.
general TOPO
1. Cez výlom (IV,V) 3h.
2. Stredom JZ steny (VI) 5h.
3. Vestenický - Rozsíval (VI-,A2,RP:6) 5,5h. TOPO
4. Talianske kapričo (IV+,A0) 2,5h. TOPO
5. Pilierom JZ steny (III,IV+) 1h. TOPO
6. Birkenmajerova cesta (IV) 1,25h.
7. Centrálny žľab Velických veží (II,III)
8. Pravé rebro (II-IV) ?h.
west wall
general TOPO 1 and TOPO 2
1. Hrana Velickej steny (IV,V) 2h.
2. Weincziller - vhĺbením (V) 2h.
3. Vzpomínka na Bimba (IV+,A2) 12h. TOPO
4. Gálfy - Urbanovič (V,VI) 3h. TOPO
5. Cez výlom (IV,V) 3h. TOPO and another TOPO
6. Grószova cesta - prístup (II)
7. Žlab pod Dvojitou vežou (II,III)
north-west wall
general TOPO
1. Hampl-Gibas (V-) 1,5h. TOPO
2. Drlík-Orolín-Vaško (V,A2,RP:6) 7h. TOPO
3. Kaňa - Luczy (IV) 1h.
4. Hranou Velickej steny (IV,V) 2h.

Maps

Map of Bradavica’ area

Tatry Wysokie, in scale 1:25 000, description in 6 languages, ISBN 83-87873-26-8, available in all shops in Zakopane. Here you can look at net version.
A high quality maps in scales 1:25 000 and 1:50 000 are produced VKU Harmanec, too. They are available at all chalets and shops in cities under Vysoke Tatry.

When To Climb

Red Tape

The “High Tatra” is a National park, UN Bioheritage area and a European BioHeritage - if you are not a member of any climbing club you can move only on marked trails - so you can visit Bradavica only with tatra guide.

In winter time (from November the 1st – June the 15th) The Tatra Mountains in Slovakian part are closed for normal tourists (not for climbers). In Polish part you can move the whole of year.

For more informations look at High Tatra/Vysoke Tatry GROUP page.
For climbing regulations look at Gerlachovsky Stit page.

Accommodation

Sliezsky Dom - a huge mountain hotel situated by a mouth of Velická / Wielicka Valley on the south shore of Velické Pleso. The dearest chalet in whole Tatra Mountains (one night about 20-25 euro) and one of the most ugly. But sole in this area.
Access from:
1. Tatranská Polianka – green-marked trail, 2 h 30 min
2. Tatranské Zruby - blue/yellow/green marked trails, 2 h 30 min
3. Starý Smokovec – yellow/green marked trails, 3 h
4. Hrebienok – red-marked trail, 2 h
5. Chata Popradské Pleso – red-marked trail, 3 h 45 min
Contact:
adres: Chalet Sliezsky dom, 059 82 Tatranská Polianka, Slovak Republic, EU
mail: mail@sliezskydom.sk
telephone: ++421-52-4425261
fax: ++421-52-4425202

Zbojnicka Chata situated in upper part of Vel’ká Studená Valley. Chalet is opened all the year for hiking, climbing and ski mountaineering.
Access from:
1. Starý Smokovec – green/red/blue-marked trail, 3 h 45 min
2. Hrebienok – red/blue-marked trail, 2 h 45 min
3. Teryho Chata – yellow-marked trail (3 h)
4. Lysa Pol’ana – blue-marked trail (6 h 15min)
Contact:
adres: Zbojnícka chata, 062 01 Starý Smokovec, Vysoké Tatry, Slovakia
mail: info@zbojnickachata.sk
telephone: ++421 903 638 000 or +421 903 619 000

Absolutely no camping is permitted in the nature park. The nearest camping in Slovakian side is in Stara Lesna and Tatranska Lomnica.

There are plenty of cheap hotels and pensions in the area of Stary Smokovec and Štrbské Pleso: accommodation

Mountain Conditions

Information of avalanche danger:
TOPR (in English) and HZS

Rescue:
On Slovakian side acts HZS (Horska Zachranna Sluzba)
Starý Smokovec 23, 059 60 Vysoké Tatry
phon.: 052/4422820, fax: 052/4422855,
mobil: 0903624869
e-mail: vtatry@hzs.sk
www.hzs.sk