Mini-Gorgany

The group gathers at the Ivano-Frankivsk station around 9 am. We move to the village of Staraya Guta (60 km, one and a half hours), from where, at an altitude of about 700 m, our route begins. We go upstream along the Bystritsa-Solotvinskaya River, go around Mount Zhuravleva Kliva, and then turn off the road. A much steeper climb begins through the forest along the Lopushna River. So we get to its source in the Borevka meadow (altitude 1320 m), where we spend the night.

We pack up the camp and follow a tricky curve to the ridge of the Gorgany massif. Behind the unnamed peak of 1596 m, the forest retreats and we find ourselves in the kingdom of stone placers, which gave the name to the Gorgans. The trail goes through all the peaks of the ridge and we successively pass Borevka (1695 m), Lopushna (1722 m), Bolshaya Syvulya (1836 m) and Malaya Syvulya (1818 m). In the first half of the 20th century, the Polish-Slovak border passed here and since then some artifacts have been preserved: stone border posts and stone trenches. The world of green (lichen-covered) stone will seem doubly beautiful to you if by this moment the weather does not deteriorate and you do not have to run down to escape a thunderstorm. For the night we go down to the Rushchina meadow to a destroyed tourist shelter (also known as a border outpost) a hundred years ago.  

After breakfast we will make a short trek to the picturesque cliffs of the Peklo tract, and after that we will begin our descent. We will pass the source of the Bystritsa Solotvinskaya River and moving along its bank we will plunge into the forest. After lunch we will find ourselves in Staraya Guta and take a minibus to Ivano-Frankivsk. If you plan to leave that same evening, then take return tickets for trains starting after 21:00.