For those of you who have been on holiday in Poland as more advanced skiers and snowboarders you will share our irritation at the National Park Patrols who strictly deny you the fun of skiing off piste on Kasprowy Wierch. At the end of last winter, 2008/2009, they opened up a fenced off run down an “off piste area” on Kasprowy Wierch in a bid to give people what they want. However, just because a run is ungroomed doesn’t make it automatically off piste and especially since they fenced the run off it pretty much became simply a new regular run.

The potentially exciting news is that there are big talks and debates going on at the moment between the fun loving skiers and snowboarders among us and the National Park people with the thoughts of allowing off piste skiing on Kasprowy Wierch. This would be a massive step for Zakopane and skiing in Poland and would certainly save a few powder hungry skiers a lot of fines!

If you’re on Facebook then please help the cause and join the group Wolny Kasprowy - aimed at gathering numbers for the powder hungry skiers and snowboarders amongst us to put to the National Park people here in Poland.

We will keep you posted…