By cable car to Gubałówka
Gubałówka offers a great overview of the structure of the Tatra Mountains, that is why guides are eager to start their tours from there. Ticket in high season 10 PLN (downward 5 PLN), only upstairs - 8 PLN (4 PLN). Useful binoculars. 1—2 hours, I was. with pedestrian descent.
The lower station is on the extension of Krupówki (from the center 0,5 km d. 5). Parking nearby - entrance from ul. Nowotarska. The single-track funicular was built by the Tourism Support League in. 1938 within 5 months (!) in preparation for the FIS. An electric motor in the top station rotates the drum, through which a rope with duralumin carriages at its ends passes. The slope of the terrain is 12-24%, the car goes 6l / 2 min., overcoming the distance 1,35 km and elevation 300 m (speed 3,5 m / sec).
Gubalowka. The upper station is at an altitude 1120 m near the east. the end of the ridge. The pergola connects it with the restaurant (dancing), decorated by outstanding artists (m. in. frescoes A. Wasilewski, paneling with carved A. Aside). In front of the building, a bronze sculpture "Polonia Restituta" (sculptor S.. Mine). Terrace for sunbathing, buffet. Ok. 100 m further east. there is a cast cross in Kuźnice, sponsored by T.. Chałubiński in r. 1873. A radiotelephony mast nearby 53 m in height (d. 12). The ridge of Gubałówka is made of flysch sandstones, it took its name from the Gubał family. There is a wonderful ** view of the Zakopane Valley and the Tatra Mountains, mainly Polish (panorama). On the. you can see Podhale with the Gorców embankment (Turbacz, 1310 m) i Orawę, behind which Babia Góra rises (1725 m). It is worth going down from Gubałówka on foot d. 11 the 12. To Poronin Zn. Red 2.15 time. Popular ski areas on the slopes.
Panorama from Gubałówka has exceptional didactic value. The orographic and geological division of the Tatra Mountains into the Western one is clearly visible, Wysokie and Bielskie and the lower mountain foothills. Plant layers are visible in the form of horizontal stripes: forests, kosodrzewin i hal. 1. The pass at Kopa (1749 m); 2. Yellow Crag (2087 m); 3. Grenades (2226, 2233 i 2239 m); 4. Koscielec (2158 m). Nad Dol. Bialy - wooded Krokiew.