Along the way, you pass the local ski resort - and the lifts here have their own stories to tell. While buying second-hand cableways and lifts is rare in Alpine countries, in the Czech Republic it has become common practice. Each year, refurbished second-hand equipment accounts for roughly half of all newly installed cableways and lifts in the country. A new cableway can cost CZK 60 to 100 million, while a refurbished one may cost up to twenty times less. The Saxner lift in Černý Důl came from Ratschings in Italy, while its neighbour arrived from the famous resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, host of the Winter Olympic Games.

On the way towards Jelení vrch, you'll pass Böhnischovy Boudy, one of the most beautiful meadow enclaves in the Krkonoše Mountains. They were established as a new place for local people to live and work after miners lost their jobs in the Černý Důl mines. Over time, as many as eleven mountain huts stood here, several of which have survived to this day. Each had its own spring, the residents kept livestock, and everything they needed was carried up on their backs or brought in on traditional wooden mountain sledges during the winter months.

Tetřeví Boudy has stood in a meadow enclave at 1,030 metres above sea level since the 18th century. Few visitors realise, however, that construction here in the 1980s led to the gasification of the whole of Pec pod Sněžkou. When the new hotel for workers from the Králův Dvůr Ironworks was built, a gas pipeline was brought up into the mountains, later supplying the entire valley.