Gruba Jodła, Babia Góra National Park

Thick Fir - a specimen of the Common Fir that grew in the so-called Chatożańska Forest on the northern slopes of Babia Góra. It was the largest tree known in the area of today's Babia Góra National Park and the oldest fir tree in Poland.

According to Hugo Zapałowicz's measurements, the fir tree's girth at breast height was 6.76 m. Its age at death is estimated at over 600 years, while its height at 55-65 meters.

"The 'Fat Fir Tree' was one of the attractions of Babia Góra at the turn of the 19th and 20th century when the tourist movement in this part of the Carpathian Mountains was beginning to be organised. It grew in the vicinity of the Czarna Cyrhel clearing at the altitude of 860 m above sea level approximately in the middle of today's yellow trail from Zawoja Składów to Markowe Szczawiny. At the end of the 19th century it began to decay as a result of being struck by lightning and was eventually destroyed by shepherds from the Czarna Cyrhel clearing who lit a fire in its decayed trunk.

In 1960, at the request of Professor Wladyslaw Szafer, the stump of the "Thick Fir" was reconstructed in concrete.