Along the stone ridges of Český Merán

A fairly physically demanding hike up the hills around the stones. With its height of 723 m, Javorová skála towers over the vast surroundings, and the nearest higher hill is Batkovy in the Křemešnické vrchovina, 25 km away. Javorová skála thus belongs to the peaks of South Bohemia with the highest topographic isolation. The border between South Bohemia and Central Bohemia runs along its northern slope. Here I was treading lightly, at other times heavily for…