Eco-trip to the Borzhava ridge Ukraine

Name: Eco-trip to the Borzhava ridge
Start: 2021-05-29
End: 2021-05-29
Location: Eco-trip to the Borzhava ridge
Rating: 5

Dates

29.05.2021 - 29.05.2021 (1 den) - Registration untill May 24, 2021

Price

0 ₴

The beginning of the route

Lviv - Volovets

End of track

Volovets - Lviv

Comfort

Complexity

Group size

5 persons

Important

This is a non-commercial trip! The main goal is to remove garbage to make the Carpathians cleaner

Route length

13 km

Description

The Polonyna Borzhava is considered one of the most beautiful of the Ukrainian Carpathians, but recently, the Carpathians have been turned into garbage dumps. Many tourists do not appreciate the culture of tourism. Especially this year, when the borders are closed, that has become noticeable. All of the most popular destinations in the Carpathians are cluttered with garbage. People are driving jeeps, riding motorcycles, and doing whatever they want...

We are organizing an eco-trip to Mount Play near the old cheese factory on the Borzhava ridge. The trip itself is not commercial. You can participate for free. You just need to register on the website. If you cannot go but want to help the project, you can transfer a symbolic amount of money to this account: Fundraising for an eco-trip to the Carpathians. The funds will be spent on organizational needs. If you care about the Carpathians and want to do something good, come with us on May 29 for an eco-trip.

The main sponsor of the trip is a network of travel stores - Terra Incognita.
Dried food on the trip is provided by James Cook

For more information, please call: +38 (096) 40-33-589

GRA guides

Andriy Duda

Trip leader

I love mountains and traveling - it inspires me to get up in the morning. I once heard a saying: “the biggest risk is not taking any risk at all” - i… More >

We hike up to Mount Plai and descend to Volovets
Borzhava is a beautiful ridge and quite easy for beginners who want to try hiking. Still, now we will have a different goal - we need to make it at least a little bit cleaner because the situation in the Carpathians looks sadder every year.
The eco-trip will start in Volovets, from where we will go to Mount Plai, through the old cheese farm. We will be collecting garbage along the entire route. The trip will be divided into two parts: first, we will collect small garbage on the way up, then we will go to the cheese factory and set up a base camp there. We leave our backpacks and go to Mount Plai to enjoy Borzhava, then go down to the cheese factory and start an active cleanup. We collect everything inorganic, big and small. We will buy bags, garbage bags, and gloves to collect the garbage, and we will also organize a kitchen where you can drink hot tea and eat delicious food from James Cook.
We are waiting for volunteers...

We hike up to Mount Plai and descend to Volovets
Route length: 12 km
Vertical drop: 628 m
We meet at 6:00 am near the circus and drive 184 km to Volovets, returning to Lviv around 22:00.