‘Jelenia Grań’ from ENE

The northern tip of the Jeleniec Ridge has no name on today’s maps. Before World War II it was called Hirschberg. After the war that name was officially replaced by ‘Jeleniec Mały’ but the new name has stuck to the adjacent ridge, which forms the east end of the Jeleniec Ridge and – according to the latest measurements – is one metre shorter. The way I see it, an appropriate name for the peak/ridge in the picture, whose elevation is 776m, would be Jelenia Grań, meaning Deer Arete/Crest. It is unique to the Sudetes: narrow and with steep sides, it does look like an arete although it wasn’t formed by glaciers but by a landslide. This photo shows Jelenia Grań seen across the valley of Rybna from the red trail several hundred metres away from the pass known as Przełęcz pod Sajdakiem.