The brick scene

Following the report just about a month ago, brick walking continues to slow down, displaced by other activities reflecting either the rain, the heat or the loosening of lock-down. Including the longest stretch without bricks since records began. Also a couple of half heaps, not seen for a while.

Notwithstanding, vertical height climbed has now past Mount Everest and we are now recording the climb modulo 8,000, that is to say 1,504 metres. At this modest height, the lists of mountains offered by Wikipedia start to break down but Velyky Verkh in the Carpathians, in western Ukraine, is about right. Above and a little to the east of the headwaters of the Osa River, roughly gmaps 48.6473773, 23.2212032.

An area which seems to be popular with both walkers and web sites, with reference 2 being a sample and with this snap purporting to be a path to the summit, although I can't see the bit of bent steelwork which Bing says marks the top. StreetView doesn't seem to have made it anywhere near at all.

An area which might have been known to Švejk, his being a soldier in the (Imperial and Royal) Austrian army during the first world war, with plenty of references in the great book to both the Carpathians and the Russians, with the Ukraine at that time being part of the Russian Empire, if not part of Russia.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/07/series-2-episode-iii.html.

Reference 2: https://80trails.com/?lang=en.