Szrenica (1,362 m a.s.l.; , ) is a mountain peak situated in the western part of

Giant Mountains The Giant Mountains, Krkonoše, or Karkonosze (Czech: , , ), are a mountain range located in the north of the Czech Republic and the south-west of Poland, part of the Sudetes mountain system (part of the Bohemian Massif). The Czech–Polish bor ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

, very close to the Polish-

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border, within the

Karkonosze National Park Giant Mountains National Park () is a National Park in the Giant Mountains in the Sudetes in southwestern Poland, along the border with the Czech Republic. The national park is located in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in the highest part of the Sud ...

. Its name originates from the Polish word ''szron'' (frost) and is close in meaning to the German name official until 1945. There is a

weather station A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmosphere of Earth, atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasting, weather forecasts and to study the weather and clima ...

situated close to the summit. The peak is deforested, both the southern and the northern parts are used intensively for skiing. The elevation gain compared to the main range is approximately 60 m.

Geology and geography

The mountain is built of finegrained

granite Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...

which, due to

weathering Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals (as well as wood and artificial materials) through contact with water, atmospheric gases, sunlight, and biological organisms. It occurs '' in situ'' (on-site, with little or no move ...

shaped standalone rocks and vaste granite fields covered in

moss Mosses are small, non-vascular plant, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic phylum, division Bryophyta (, ) ''sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryo ...

, covering eastern part of the slope.

Tourism

There is a private

mountain hut A mountain hut is a building located at high elevation, in mountainous terrain, generally accessible only by foot, intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineering, mountaineers, climbing, climbers and Hiking, hikers. Mountain huts are us ...

on the peak and a PTTK mountain shelter on the slope. The peak is accessible by

chair lift An elevated passenger ropeway, or chairlift, is a type of aerial lift, which consists of a continuously circulating steel wire rope loop strung between two end terminals and usually over intermediate towers. They are the primary on-hill tran ...

(two part, with the transfer station). The slope has skiing facilities, including

ski lift A ski lift is a mechanism for transporting skiers up a hill. Ski lifts are typically a Lift ticket, paid service at ski resorts. The first ski lift was built in 1908 by German Robert Winterhalder in Schollach/Eisenbach, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, ...

s and poles marking skiing trails in exposed and deforested areas. There are three routes for downhill skiing: Lolobrigida (4,444 m), Śnieżynka and FIS-approved ''Trasa Zjazdowa''; all constitute the system, which length is about 13 km. Two tourist trails cross the summit: Główny Szlak Sudecki and Polish–Czech Friendship Trail which merge here.

Weather

At the height of 1331 m a.s.l. there is a mountain

, the property of the

University of Wrocław The University of Wrocław (, UWr; ) is a public research university in Wrocław, Poland. It is the largest institution of higher learning in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, with over 100,000 graduates since 1945, including some 1,900 researcher ...

. It was founded and consequently built in years 1950. Average year measures obtained by the station:Jan Kwiatkowski: Klimat. In: ''Karkonosze polskie''. Wrocław: Polska Akademia Nauk, 1985, p. 88-111. . * Average temperature of 12 subsequent months: -1.9 C * Average temperature of January (minimal of the year): -6.8 C * Average temperature of July (maximal of the year):: 10.0 C * Maximal rainfall (maximal of the year): June 177 mm * Minimal rainfall (minimal of the year): January 72 mm *

Relative humidity Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air. Water vapor, the gaseous state of water, is generally invisible to the human eye. Humidity indicates the likelihood for precipitation (meteorology), precipitation, dew, or fog t ...

: 80% * Fog: 264 days a year * Sunny: 29 days

References

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