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• 02 LEDGES & LAKE

• 06 ANCIENT RUINS #1

• 07 THROUGH & BELOW RIDGES

Circle

Starts at Garamkövesd, east end pub

Distance: 10.5 km

Elevation: 780 m

Untrodden: 30%

Difficulty: 4.2 /5

Points of interest:

• Prospect to the Danube and Esztergom
• Many big rocks and exposed cliff perimeters
• Climbing(!) and walking on them
  
• An interesting collapse cave
  
• Foothills of those rocks
• Pubs in Garamkövesd or Párkány (SK)

Circle

Starts near Eszetrgom at Adri buffet

Distance: 11.4 km

Elevation: 610 m

Untrodden: 20%

Difficulty: 3.2 /5

Points of interest:

• Nice ledge of rocks
  
• Kerek lake (drinks & food if open that day)
  
• Nice ridge up to Maróti mountains
  
• Sas mountain lookout
  
• Hideglelős-kereszt peak
  
• Prospect to mountain range Börzsöny
  

Circle

Starts in Visegrád, northern part

Distance: 18.1 km

Elevation: 1080 m

Untrodden: 20%

Difficulty: 3.8 /5

Points of interest:

• Zsitvai lookout tower (entrance fee)
• Another nice lookout place from a cliff
  
• Abandoned military base (full of blackberries in late summer)
  
• Nice long ridge downward
  
• Fishing & eating (seasonal)
  
• Visegrád castle (entrance fee)
  

Circle

Starts in Zebegény, railway station

Distance: 10.7 km

Elevation: 760 m

Untrodden: 5%

Difficulty: 3.2 /5

Points of interest:

• Brother Julianus Lookout tower
• Prospect to mountain range Visegrádi
• Scenic mountain sides and rocks
• Artificial small caves
• The nice main square of Zebegény and a great pub

Circle

Starts in Esztergom on the Vaskapu hill

Distance: 13.7 km

Elevation: 680 m

Untrodden: 30%

Difficulty: 3.4 /5

Points of interest:

• Vaskapu shelter hut complex (food & drinks if open that day)
• Many lookout places
  
• Nice forest parts
  
• Forgotten military trench beside the nowadays highway path
  
• Small and Big Loggia volcanic tuff cave
• Hegymeg highland

Circle

Starts in Dömös, near the center

Distance: 14.7 km

Elevation: 890 m

Untrodden:15%

Difficulty: 3.8 /5

Points of interest:

• Provostal ruins (entrance fee, seasonal)
  
• Vadálló cliffs (one of the most interesting row of cliffs around here)
  
• A needless lookout tower, prospect to the Danube bend
  
• Southern ridge of Vadálló cliffs (not for tourists)
  
• Rám ravine
• Árpád fort ruins (almost nobody knows)

There and back

Starts at DINPI house in Esztergom-kertváros

Distance: 13.7 km

Elevation: 690 m

Untrodden: 20%

Difficulty: 3.4 /5

Points of interest:

• Nice rocky ridges all the way there
  
• Tündérkapu cave entrance created by thermal water activity
  
• Scenic volcanic plateau invading the lime stone crest
  
• Underground Soviet bunkers on the way home (1 & 2 stories)
  

+ Crystal cave tour here.

There and back

Starts in Mogyorósbánya, main square

Distance: 16.9 km

Elevation: 1000 m

Untrodden: 5%

Difficulty: 3.4 /5

Points of interest:

• Rock maze of Mogyorósbánya (just get lost in there)
• Nice gardens on the way
• Hegyes-kő hill lime stone layers & lookout
• Nagy-Gete mountain lookout
• Way back through Tokod village

Straight

Travelling from Dorog to Bajót by bus

Starts in Bajót, ends in Dorog

Distance: 19.3 km

Elevation: 1050 m

Untrodden: 10%

Difficulty: 4.0 /5

Points of interest:

• Bajót cliffs with lime stone layers and caves
• Rock maze of Mogyorósbánya (just get lost in there)
• Nice gardens on the way
• Hegyes-kő hill lime stone layers & lookout
• Nagy-Gete mountain lookout

Circle

Starts at Pilisszentlélek, bus turn-round

Distance: 10.1 km

Elevation: 520 m

Untrodden: 25%

Difficulty: 3.0 /5

Points of interest:

• The bigest Pauline monastery ruins around here
• Nice lookout places
• Hirsch summit
• Hamvas-kő cliff for deers
• Fehér-szikla ledge

Circle

Starts in Pilisszentkereszt, Dera parking

Distance: 17.6 km

Elevation: 1010 m

Untrodden: 25%

Difficulty:  3.8 /5

Points of intere st:

• Dera gully
• Small ruins of a Cistecian monastry
• Chapel in a stone mine
• Rocky ridge of Pilis mountain to the top (450 m sudden elevation)
• Lookout tower, prospect to mountain range Visegrádi
• Vaskapu rocks with giant ring holes (remains of an ancinet cave)
• Clear transit from lime stone to volcanic stone
• Zsivány-sziklák fracture

There and back

Starts at Piliscsév, main square

Distance: 16.2 km

Elevation: 780 m

Untrodden: 5%

Difficulty: 3.4 /5

Points of interest:

• Nice little village of Piliscsév
  
• Small through cave on a ridge
  
• Kémény cliff
  
• Nice rocky gully
  
• Fekete-kő summit that is called Comb (a climbable 140 m abyss)
  

There and back

Starts near Solymár, Háziréti lake parking

Distance: 15.4 km

Elevation: 990 m

Untrodden: 5%

Difficulty: 3.6 /5

Points of interest:

• Sacral 'hivestone'
  
• Eger castle movie scene
• Nagy-Kevély mountain cliffs, climbing on it across
• Kis-Kevély ridge lookout
• Mackó cave
• Csúcs hill, stone mine waste land
• Oszoly peak lookout

ONLY FOR FANATICS

Straight

Starts in Budapest at Csillaghegy HÉV stop, ends in Esztergom at Basilica

Distance: 43 km

Elevation: 2250 m

Untrodden: pretty much

Difficulty: tiring  

Points of interest:

• A lot through the crest of mountain range Pilis from end to end