Parnica Off The Beaten Path

Mountains called Kysucke Vrhoviny were located north of local highway 583, I drove. They were lower than Mala Fatra. Its highest summit - Javorinka was only 1210 m = 3970 ft high. Their slopes were covered by mixed, both leaved and coniferous, forest and there were some amazing lime rock formations seen even from the highway there.

Mala Fatra Mountains were located south of highway 583 I drove. It's highest summit (1709 m = 5607 ft) is called Velky Krivan (Big Krivan).
Drive to village of Terchova on highway 583 and turn southward along Vratna Valley (Vratna Dolina) towards popular ski center Vratna. There is a chair lift to Velky Kryvan (close to the summit) there.
I was there in late 90' (in beginning of May), unfortunatelly there was raining down and snowing up so I wasn't lucky to admire beautiful landscapes there :-(.

Both Mala Fatra and Kysucke Vrhowiny are realatively young mountains so there are quite a lot lime rocks there. They looked especially amazing lighted by automn/fall sun with colorful leaves at this time of year.

Most famous rock formation are placed south of village Terchova along the highway to popular ski center Vratna in a valley called Vratna Dolina (Vratna Valley). I was there once (must find pics) in late 90' and although it was raining down and snowing up I liked there a lot.

Mountains around Parnica including Mala Fatra are largely covered by forest.
In lower parts (on my picture) they are mixed: partly leaved, parly coniferous. Higher you climb, more evergreen, coniferous trees you see, mostly pines but spruces and firs as well. But I liked especially fall/autumn colours of leaves on leaved trees.

We were looking at Zazrivka river fast running stream from wooden bridge looking for... fish and we admired trees with fall leaves along the river bed. Hmm... I didn't see any fish but there must be at least mountain trouts, I am sure. You can taste them in local restaurants around.
Zazrivka River flows outside the area of Mala Fatra National Park so fishing there is allowed.

When we got off our car to take a short walk we had to cross this wooden bridge over Zazrivka River on my picture.

Hiking many times around Slovak mountains (close to Poland) in the past I discovered a lot of such simple bridges and more primitive ones like just a trunk of tree put over the river/stream. Sometimes it was not so easy to cross a river :-).