Kalatówki and Hala Kondratowa

Kalatówki and Hala Kondratowa are the blue trail from Kuźnice leading to the smallest Tatra mountain hut (1,333 m a.s.l.), before the real ascent of Giewont begins. A meadow, a hotel, the Albertine convent, a view of the wall without the queue under the cross.

💡 In a nutshell – Kalatówki and Kondratowa:

1. For whom: A walk with a child on foot, the day before Giewont, knees after yesterday’s Czerwone Wierchy.
2. No chains. There are stones and some mud after rain.
3. Tiles: Both buildings and the return to Kuźnice. The hotel alone is in the table.
4. Giewont: A separate card. From here another 600 m up and a queue.

Trail description: Blue under Giewont, not onto Giewont

Stage 1: Kuźnice and the Albertines

From Kuźnice blue under the Kasprowy cable car. The Albertine convent — the chapel and Brother Albert’s cell if you have 20 minutes.

Stage 2: Polana Kalatówki

The mountain hotel, a moraine, a view of Kasprowy. The pushchair ends here.

Stage 3: Hala Kondratowa

Another 50 min on blue. The hut, the meadow, Giewont hanging overhead. Return the same way. Green from here goes to Kopa Kondracka — that is another card.

Logistics and practical information

• Start: Kuźnice by bus or car park. In season the car park dies at 8:00.
• Ticket: TPN. Booth on the trail.
• Food: The hotel on Kalatówki and the hut on Kondratowa. Two reasons not to carry a pot.
• Dog: Banned.

Who is this absolutely NOT for?

Not for someone who “is going to Giewont because Kondratowa is already close” — it is not close. Not with a pushchair to Kondratowa. If you want a shorter valley closer to Krupówki, take Strążyska. If you want the cross — Giewont from Kuźnice.