“Wyrypa” (pronounced roughly as vy-ry-pah, where both “y” sound as in “typical”) is a Polish slang word for a difficult mountains hike. The difficulty could be any combination of distance, total elevation gain, rough terrain or a particular ascent/descent. Perhaps 
Last Saturday I did 30km with 1300m of total elevation gain. Good candidate for a “Wyrypa”. Today I did 20km with just below 1000m elevation gain. Normally I would say “extended mountains walk”. But today it was a “Wyrypa”
It wasn’t the distance nor the elevation gain. It was the steepness of two ascents and one descent. An average of 27% and a stage with 45% (it’s measured as the distance covered versus elevation gain/loss - think of tangent in trigonometry). If you are a cyclist - can you ride uphill with 27% incline? Walkers can do more than that, but 45% is against the muscles of your calves and thighs. And against your brain if you do it on slippery mud…
As much as I am used to distances and climbs, 45% incline would hurt. The more that it was our final descent and then we got into my car and drove 2hrs home. To offset this, I stopped just 2km before my home, got out of the car and… went for a walk. I climbed 8 flights of stairs to get on a foot bridge over a highway, then walked around a neighbourhood which sits on a hill and finally got back to my car, using the stairs to get down. The extra steps and especially the stairs up and down will save me from pain tomorrow.
Overall it was a great hike. Let me finish with a sunny photo.
Greetings to my today’s 
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