About the project

Hi! I’m glad you’re here. On pages like this you usually read about a big mission and corporate visions. With me, it was a bit different. Taterki.eu was born out of pure, travel-related irritation.

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You’re heading to the Tatras. You want to check whether you can reach a trail with a stroller, how long the climb takes, and whether there are chains at the end. You open Google. You wait 10 seconds for a video, close three cookie dialogs, skip shoe ads taking half the screen, and wade through 10 paragraphs of filler. You just wanted to know where to park.

I decided I’d had enough. I built Taterki.eu from scratch (Astro), the way I’d want to use it on the trail: when LTE is a dream and the battery is screaming 15%.

Three principles

Speed and clarity

No floating pop-ups. You open Giewont and immediately see: distance, time, elevation gain, and trail colour.

No fluff

If a trail is boring and will wreck your knees, you’ll read about it. If parking costs a fortune, I’ll warn you. This is a guide for you, not a brochure for TPN.

Respect for beginners

I remember my first mountain trip. I explain things in plain language: from buying an e-ticket to the fact that microspikes are not the same as crampons.

Who I am

I’m not a TOPR rescuer, not a guide with an IVBV badge, and I don’t run up Rysy before breakfast. I’m passionate about mountains and technology (a web developer).

I love the Tatras (yes, my wife knows :) ) — the Polish ones with their hut atmosphere and the Slovak ones with their wildness. I know the pain of a blistered heel on Ceprostrada and the joy of a cold beer at Hala Ornak. I build this site in my free time. It takes a lot of sleepless nights and coffee.

How you can help

Taterki.eu is, and will always be, free. I won’t lock trail descriptions behind a paywall. Servers, the domain, and development still cost money. If the site helped you plan a trip, saved your knees, or you simply like what I’m doing — you can buy me a virtual coffee. Voluntary, no strings, and damn motivating.

When I see a coffee notification, I know late-night coding makes sense.

Buy me a

And if it’s not coffee? Pass the site on. Send the link to friends you’re planning a trip with, or share a post on Facebook. That’s huge support too.

See you on the trail! 🏔️

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