Shybene village, via Mount Shchavnyk, Mount Vaskul, Mount Pip Ivan Chornohirskyi and Mount Smotrych to Dzembronia village
About the route:
Route Shybene village, via Mount Shchavnyk, Mount Vaskul, Mount Pip Ivan Chornohirskyi and Mount Smotrych to Dzembronia village. Warning! This route is unmarked (it may be partially marked)! Unmarked routes are not equipped with: information boards; signposts; auxiliary signs (water, campsite, etc.). The decision to take the route is entirely your own responsibility! Trail length 29688m. Lowest point - 802m., highest point - 2001m. Total elevation gain 1643m. Along the route you will see: Mount Shchavnyk, Polonyna "Shchavnyk" (Yavirnyk), Mount Vaskul, The White Elephant Observatory on Mount Pip Ivan Chornohirsky, Mount Pip Ivan of Chornohora (Pip Ivan, Black Mountain), Mount Smotrych.
What to see along the route:
The top of Mount Shchavnyk is 1378 meters above sea level. Nearest settlements: Yavirnyk and Burkut in Ivano-Frankivsk region.
To the north of Stog stretches a ridge with the peaks of Shchavnyk (1378 m) and Vykhod (1471 m), through which you can reach the mountain Pip Ivan Chornohirskyi (2028 m). To the southeast of the mountain are the Chyvchyn Mountains, and to the west are the Marmarosy (Hutsul Alps).
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The Shchavnyk meadow is located on the Chornohora ridge at an altitude of 1600 meters above sea level. The owner of the meadow: Ivan Mykolayovych Moysiuk.
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Vaskul (Vaskul) is a mountain in the Chornohora massif (Ukrainian Carpathians). Vaskul (1730 m) is the foothill of Pop Ivan on the southwestern side. On the top of the mountain there is a wooden pillar with the name of the mountain and directional signs.
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The construction of the White Elephant Observatory on Mount Pip-Ivan Chornohirsky(the route along the Chornohirsky ridge starts from this two-thousand meter high peak) began in the summer of 1936, designed by architects K. Marczewski and J. Pogoski (who were recognized as the best in a closed competition), and was completed by the Polish Ministry of Air Defense in July 1938.
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Pip Ivan Chornohirsky (also known as "Pip Ivan" and "Black Mountain") is the third highest mountain (2028 m) after Hoverla (2061 m) and Brebeneskul (2035 m) in the Chornohora mountain range of the Ukrainian Carpathians.
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Mount Smotrych (also known as Smotrets) is an 1898-meter peak of the Ukrainian Carpathians. It is located in the Carpathian National Nature Park on the Chornohora mountain range in the Verkhovyna district of Ivano-Frankivsk region.
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