Western Gorgany

We all meet in Lviv at 6:00 am and go to the village of Osmoloda. Today will be very active, so we make ourselves breakfast and set off on the route to the Plisce meadow, where there is a tourist shelter. There, we will spend the first night of the hike.

Let's tell you a little more about this part of the Carpathians. This region is called the Western Gorgany. They are known for their “Tsekoty”—stone blocks—and “Zhereb”—dense alpine pine. Our route is not very popular among tourists, so we will enjoy the mountain beauty and Carpathian silence.

The main goal today will be to warm up well before the following days of hiking.

We wake up cheerful, have a delicious and hearty breakfast, and start hiking up Mount Grofa (1748m). The day is quite difficult, and we will have much less time. We have to reach the Moloda River, where our next campsite will be set up.

When we reach the top of Grofa, we have to look at the beauty of the wild Gorgany and take some awesome photos. There is a lot to see, as from the top, you can see the Pishkonia Ridge, the Arshytsia Ridge, Mount Moloda, Mount Popadia, Mount Bushtul, Mount Vyshkivskyi Gorgany, Mount Strymba, and many others.

Before sunset, we'll be at our campsite, where we'll cook ourselves some Ukrainian borscht to get in the right mood and then rest.

Today is fascinating, so we pack up our tents and head out on the route. The first point for today will be Mount Moloda. The mountain has a beautiful but sad story about a young girl after whom it was named. We will have our own story, beginning with the Moloda River, which we will cross because it is a long way to the bridge and the only shortcut.
The main goal today is the mountain Yayko-Ilemske, 1680m. The views from it are fabulous, so you can spare no effort for this ascent. Then, we will descend to the Mshana meadow, where there is a water source. In this meadow, we will set up a campsite.

Завершувати мандрівку будемо на високій ноті. There are several options for descending to Osmoloda, but we chose the most interesting one. We will go along the Arshytsia ridge, it was on this ridge that a Soviet fighter jet once crashed, the remains of which are still scattered along the ridge.

Today, we will have a whole day for an expedition along Arshytsya ridge, and maybe we will be lucky enough to see something interesting. But, in any case, the mountains here are fabulous, so we will have a great time. We will finish the trip in the village of Osmoloda, where a bus will be waiting for us. We will arrive in Lviv around 23:00.