Tag - Wielka Racza
Wielka Racza Mountain – the highest peak of the Żywiec-Kysuce Beskid Mountains with a height of 1236 m a.s.l. It is located in the southern part of the Polish Żywiec-Kysuce Beskid Mountains, on the Polish-Slovak border. It belongs to the Wielka Racza Group mountain range stretching from the Zwardoń Pass to the Glinka Pass. Wielka Racza borders the Obłaz peak from the north, and the Mała Racza peak from the south. The eastern slopes descend to the Rycerski Potok, the southern slopes descend to the Klubinský potok valley. A long ridge extends to the west, for which Wielka Racza is a keystone.
The Wielka Racza massif is composed of folded flysch rocks belonging to the Magura nappe and less resistant inoceramian sandstones and less resistant shales. The terrain is the result of erosion processes, which shaped mountain ridges with domed peaks in more resistant sandstones, and river valleys were formed in less resistant shales and conglomerates.
The peaks of Wielka Racza are covered with forest, and under the very top you can find small fragments of the upper montane forest. Below, the slopes are covered with a lower montane mixed forest, originally a natural beech-fir stand with an admixture of spruce, which has been severely disturbed by human activity and is now dominated by spruce stands, allowing for faster timber harvesting. On the top of Wielka Racza there is a grassy meadow of natural origin, despite the fact that the natural upper boundary of the forest runs about 150 m higher in this part of the Beskids.
At the top there is a viewing platform, from which there is a wide panorama of the Little Fatra Mountains, Orava Magura, Żywiec-Kysuce Beskid Mountains, Żywiec-Orava Beskid Mountains, Moravian-Silesian Beskids and the Silesian Beskids. A little below is the PTTK Mountain Shelter Wielka Racza. Below the peak on the Slovak side is a ski resort (Veľká Rača Oščadnica) located at an altitude of 639–1048 m a.s.l.
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