Speaking of weather phenomena – you surely observed some spectacular ones while working at Kasprowy Wierch.

I think it was in June of 2002 or 2003. Together with Piotr Gasiorowski we were supposed to hike with our skis to ski some last patch of snow. During the night the temps dropped significantly, and a snowstorm came. We were sleeping in the weather station and I was waking Piotr up shouting “Get up, get up, there is 1 meter of fresh powder!”. He did not believe at all but when he saw what happened he was speechless. We skied down the whole bowl in mid June in perfect powder. Then we hiked up to ski a line where even in the winter conditions are not always so good, and we managed to ski it without hitting a single rock! 

On another occasion I got stuck in the weather station due to a massive snowstorm that lasted for 3 days. There were only two people on the peak – me and a cable car worker in the gondola station. I can remember that I had to shovel a lot to get to the instruments that are mounted on the roof of the observatory. Another story was during a huge thunderstorm, when thunders kept striking the observatory building and other peaks. No one even tried to walk to the gondola station that is just 50m away.