Winter week in Šumava 2022 pt. 1, to Borový Lad

One of the old sayings, I suspect attributed to Heraclitus of Ephesus, says that you don't step into the same river twice. I would say that we can also apply it to other natural formations, i.e. "you don't climb the same mountains twice."
About two summers ago, at a similar time, we spent less than a week in Nové Huty in Šumava in a somewhat smaller group. Unfortunately, at the beginning of February 2020, the Šumava region was somewhat…