>>1293413>might look a little threatening to others onnatrailnot in the Carpathian mountains it won't. Here, the ciupaga (valaska in Chech/Slovak, fokos in Hungarian, baltag in Romanian) is instantly recognizable as a tool/weapon of the highlanders9 and highland robbers).
Bottom line - there's a shit ton of these sold as souvenirs (crappy, non-functional ones) in Zakopane. If you know where to look, you can easily get one with a functional axe head.
have a bonus pic of the Siklawa waterfall - final obstacle on the way to the 5 lakes, which we didn't make (a month back) because I honestly didn't plan for the snow still lying on a few of the final climbs.
