Klepki

Following the success of several ski resorts in Wisła (Cienków, Nowa Osada and, a little earlier, Soszów and Stożek), which put skier comfort first and built chairlifts, another chairlift went up in the 2013/14 season in Malinka, not far from the first of these, creating yet another small family ski area of the kind Wisła is known for. It lies on the southern slopes of Czupel, just below the hamlet of Klepki, which gave it its name. The heart of the resort is a new 4-seater Leitner chairlift, 600 metres long, with a vertical rise of 90 metres and a capacity of 1,800 people per hour. Alongside the chairlift runs a button lift (the so-called "big" one) of the same length, and a little lower down another button lift, the "small" one, 180 metres long. A blue piste runs down beside them in two variants, a shorter one and a longer, more roundabout one, both suitable for beginners. At the valley station there is a snack bar, a rental shop and a ski school. The resort is thoroughly family-oriented and suits children (provided they can already ski), in keeping with the profile of most ski areas in Wisła. Its biggest drawback (apart from its modest size) is the south-facing slope: when the sun gets a little stronger, the snow quickly turns wet and soft. Its biggest advantage is perhaps... the free car park, not something to take for granted in the Silesian Beskids. Quite close to the car park stands the Adam Małysz ski jump in Malinka. It is the most modern facility of its kind in Poland, with a K-120 construction point, built from scratch on the site of two earlier jumps on the wave of success of the "Eagle from Wisła". The modern jump has its own chairlift, which takes you to a small café by the in-run, though of course not when competitions are being held... The resort is covered by a shared ski pass called "Wiślański Skipass", which includes 11 ski resorts and lifts in Wisła and Ustroń in total.