It is a shame that some hiking trails are heavily visited especially in the summer, although they are no less beautiful in the winter months. On the other hand, it actually has its advantages, because you feel as if you are somewhere far from civilization, far from people, as if you are conquering some forgotten corner of the earth. One such place is the Bear Trail in Šumava. It is a place that we know mainly because the last bear in Šumava was shot here. This is the oldest educational trail in South Bohemia (2nd oldest in the Czech Republic) with many interesting rock formations and also with a stop at the Schwarzenberg canal. The greatest attractions of the trail include, for example, the Bärenstein (granite stone in memory of the last Šumava bear, which was shot in these places on 14 November 1856), the Schwarzenberg canal (a canal several tens of km long that was used to float wood from the inaccessible Šumava places as far as Vienna), Gingerbread Hill (on its slope there is a granite rock town with a number of interesting and romantic rock formations that were created by the weathering of granite). On the trail, you will also come across formations named, for example, Dragon's Mouth (in winter, icicles form in it that look like dragon's teeth), Rock Castle, Gingerbread Rock, Lapkő Gorge, Rock Lookout (rock town on the slope of Perník Hill (1,049 m)) , Hunting Cave, Mushroom (a rock formation in the shape of a giant mushroom), Viklan (an exceptionally well-developed form of viklan), Moss Pyramid (moss-covered rocks), Stone Beauty, Giant Cubes (regular cubic boulders), Bear Lookout (the so-called . windows), Pašerácká jeskyně (a rock formation reminiscent of a cave) and Jelení jezírko (artificially built retention tank to increase the water level of the Schwarzenberg Canal).