2024-06-16 23:52:26
Viktor Beránek has been working as an area lodger for 47 years on the lodge beneath Rysy, the very best mountain lodge within the Excessive Tatras. Final season, a storm broken the painted latrine right here, which is the image of the lodge. Beránek and his colleagues managed to restore it earlier than this season. Nonetheless, the mountain climbing group Hikemates plans to put in fashionable ecological bathrooms on the cottage. The locals, together with Báránek, don’t love him.
A latrine is inextricably linked to Chata pod Rysi. It was swept away by a storm final 12 months. Is it already fastened?
Sure it’s. A cottage with out a latrine is a sufficiently big drawback. Then vacationers can go to the bathroom wherever, even the place we get water from.
It was a disaster scenario, however fortunately it occurred simply 4 days earlier than the winter shutdown. We did not wish to construct it initially of winter, so we quickly left it with out partitions. With a view to all sides of the world.
I had the entire winter to organize. In Could, we took out 4 partitions and a roof on the again. On the weekend earlier than the summer season season, we got here to construct it in order that it might be prepared by June 1st. Jožo Kubáni and Pavol Barabáš additionally got here and painted the partitions. We plan so as to add yet another this summer season to resolve the row drawback.
Undesirable sanitary waste also needs to be diminished by the brand new fashionable bathrooms that the Hikemates vacationer part plans to construct close to the cottage. What do you consider them?
The general public does not prefer it. Folks like stunning, painted latrines with an incredible view, not Ufon bathrooms with no home windows. As well as, we carried the fabric for the latrine on our backs, there may be quite a lot of work and love in it. These bathrooms are delivered by helicopter.
The mountain climbing membership says they are going to be environmentally pleasant and slot in with the Alpine atmosphere with their design.
I do not prefer it. Whenever you wish to promote one thing at present, you say it is natural. Once I hear it generally, the quiver in my pocket opens. If it does not work and we’ve to dismantle it and bear it, then I’ll ask everybody the way it was ecological.
The know-how may be very easy. A tank of two cubic meters, it falls there and the liquid element overflows into the terrain. It might be put in in our latrine and it might work precisely the identical.
How have been the primary days after the beginning of the summer season season?
The primary customer arrived at seven o’clock on Saturday morning. Fairly just a few individuals got here.
Has the variety of guests to Chata pod Rysy modified over time?
There have been years when East Germans got here to us as a result of they might not go wherever else. There have been about 1,000,000 of them, they have been huge vacationers. Through the occasions of socialism, worldwide youth ascents within the footsteps of VI Lenin have been held yearly on the cottage. Once I examine it, the visitors continues to be kind of the identical.
At some point there are crowds, then it rains and nobody goes. The worst factor is to plan a climb throughout a sunny day, then it collapses there and it’s a must to wait a very long time. This can be a widespread mistake. So I might advocate going even in dangerous climate.
Is it true that beneath Rysy there are generally hourly jams?
Sure, however that solely occurs about 3 times a season. It was thought-about regular, however at present it causes hysteria and everybody offers with it like bears. Issues can solely come up when individuals don’t comply with the route and return by the identical chains they got here.
What was your largest visitors final 12 months?
Official numbers converse of 1,200 to 1,300 individuals per day, of which 1,000 have been Poles. I feel there have been stronger days when about 1500 individuals got here, however these weren’t counted. Nonetheless, these are Lynx stats, not chat stats.
When do you assume is the worst time to hike Rysy?
Many vacationers have a hard and fast date of August 15. However the worst time is when it rains for 3 days after which the solar comes out. I choose to exit when it stops raining, however it’s nonetheless drizzling just a little. There may be not even a foot wherever, the air smells stunning, there may be silence and peace. An exquisite theater is unfolding earlier than me, and I do know that I’m going to an excellent and even higher spectacle.
What are the most typical errors made by vacationers who come to you?
The largest mistake is that they take the stress of town with them and rush an excessive amount of. They arrive wide-eyed, verify their watches to see what the report holders are, take an image and run down. It is a spoiled hike for me.
When they’re already in nature, they need to sit down for some time, have tea, soup. For my part, the vital factor is just not the vacation spot, however the feeling you get from the hike. It’s a consequence of at present’s fast-paced, consumerist society.
It will get higher when it snows in September. That is when individuals in a rush disappear and individuals who actually just like the mountains and stroll slowly begin strolling. Then after I meet somebody, I am glad too. I greet him, we smile at one another.
Are you irritated by unprepared vacationers who, for instance, do not select appropriate footwear?
I do not blame them, however the vital factor is that they at all times have cats with them, ideally with centimeter spikes. However largely they put on designer garments. They know what to put on. It is extra like us porters strolling round in ragged T-shirts. We do not take care of it, as a result of even when we get moist, we are able to wash our garments proper on the cottage.
Is it true that after we meet a mountain porter we should not discuss to him?
Precisely. The provider, who has 90 kilos on his again, is unable to say a phrase. And above all, he should totally consider his ft. Attempt placing 100 kilos in your again and simply strolling up the steps. Even skilled bodybuilders who should not used to it have an issue with it. That is the great thing about it – you totally consider the journey and lower your self off from the entire world round you.
What number of occasions every week do you personally go to the chat?
Perhaps two or 3 times. I’m consistently restocking the lodge whereas additionally caring for vacationers who wish to attempt it out. We’re the one lodge that permits this. Slovaks are very hardworking, on this respect they’re the most effective clientele on this planet.
You might be 72 years outdated. What number of extra kilograms are you able to carry?
Final 12 months I carried 50 to 60 kilos.
Are you continue to having fun with it?
Sure, it’s rest. Life beneath the hood appears to be like fully completely different. Simply by strolling slowly, I am in stark distinction to the busy, chatty world down there.
Do you have already got an concept of who will take over the function of cottager after you?
It should be an individual who works at Rysy and already is aware of the complete cottage completely. If it have been as much as me, I might decide one of many guys who’ve been working there for twenty years. I’ve already educated them sufficient that I would not fear concerning the chat in any respect.
Folks can not even think about what the upkeep of a mountain hut entails. After we put together the cabin for winter, it’s like if you wish to shut down an ocean liner. Ten individuals work the final week earlier than closing. It’s important to go away your coronary heart there. When an avalanche falls and takes away half of the cottage, you do not hand over. It occurred to us in 2000, and even when the winter was raging, we put it again collectively.
Kežmarská chata ended so sadly. It burned down, the cottager packed up and left. An actual cottager should be just like the one from the flicks Copper Tower and Eagle Feather. Once they have been locked up in jail, they wished to return to the cottage sooner or later and put it again into operation.