#jizera mountains

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Rainy mood in the Jizera Mountains.

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📸 by @martinrakphoto

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Winter walk in Izera Mountains (2) (3) by Tomek Wojciechowski

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Jizera Mountains, Czech Republic - by Karol Nienartowicz

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@ludoweet 📍: Jizera Mountains, Czech Republic

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A trip to peak Paličník and Mt. Smrk - the highest point of Jizera Mountains

No.1 - the cross on top of Paličník 

No.2 - the road from Paličník to Smrk

No.3 - the ‘Heaven’s Ladder’ leading up on the peak of Smrk

No.4 - the view from ‘Heaven’s Ladder’

No.5 - the marker on top of Mt. Smrk with the lookout tower in the background

No.6&7 - views from the lookout tower

No.8 - the lookout tower

No.9 - the road from Mt. Srmk to Nové Město pod Srmkem

No.10 - the contrast of various types of forests with a beech grove in the foreground

First sunny day after several weeks of rain and strong winds. It was still very windy, especially on top of Paličník. I kept my travel diary, in which I logged the types of plants and animals I’ve seen. The altitudinal vegetation zones were very noticeable, since my trip began on the altitude of app. 430m and peaked on 1165m.

First I passed through acidophilic beech forests (that’s the kind where the ground is covered by fallen beech leaves with an almost non-existent herb layer - the ground is very acidic there and the leaves rot very slowly, which hampers the germinability of other plants) with the occasional birch. As I climbed up there were more and more firs and spruces mingled into the beech growth. Finally the spruces took over along with a number of dwarf pines and rowans here and there (their leaves only just began to sprout).

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Sea of green in the Jizera Mountains.

📸 by @martinrakphoto

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