Kasprowy Wierch

Cable car experience and panoramic ridge hikeSimilar to the Giewont limestone massif further north towards Poland and the adjacent Czerwone Wierchi border massif to the west (Kopa Kondracka, Malolaczniak, Krzesanica and Ciemniak), the Kasprowy Wierch, Czuby Goryczkowe and Czuby Suche Kondracke group directly on the national border also belongs to the Western Tatras (Tatry Zachodnie). However, it has a different geological character, which is determined by crystalline rocks displaced over limestone. Relatively moderate grassy slopes descend on the southern side, while in the north there are several hundred-metre-deep alpine basins sculpted by glaciers. The former German name for the Kasprowy Wierch - Kasparskogel - was probably derived from a pasture owner on the southern, Slovakian side of the Tatras. Today, the "Kasprowy" is mainly famous for its cable car. The actual summit is located to the southwest of the cable car station. The observatory perched on top, built in 1936-38, is the highest permanently inhabited building in Poland, similar to the summit observatory on the Lomnický Peak in Slovakia.(Automatically translated by DeepL)