Continuing where I left off on day 5 of the trip. We were out of the Hasmasul Mare Mountains. We biked across a few hills, went past a few sheepfolds, survived to a few sheep dogs, went down a crappy dirt road that started improving and then it leveled off. It’s here where we went past the dreaded sign – we were entering the county of Neamt. We were entering Continue…
Continuing where I left off on day 3 of the trip. We got down the Calimani Mountains and entered Dragoiasa. This village looked pretty remote, with no paved roads and no convenience stores that we could see (although we didn’t pass through the village center). We continued towards Bilbor. We followed a forest road that got from decent to muddy to none – the road ended and we had to Continue…
The 394 km train ride from Bucharest to Deda is over 7 hours long. With the last 40 km, that go along the Mures Gorge, needing 70 minutes. We got on our bikes at around 6:30 pm, with only a couple of hours of biking for this first day. After a tarmac section we left the comfort of civilization behind and entered the Calimani Mountains. We first climbed on Rastolita Continue…
One week of mountain biking, remote places and simple pleasures. The final track ended at about 350 km in 7 days, with 300 in northern Romania and another 50 over the hills of Prahova. Let’s start with the preparations. Alex came up with the plan and the track. We would be spending some type on altitudes over 1500 meters, so I had to pack some cold weather clothes – not many Continue…
A heatwave is currently approaching Romania, so let’s talk about skiing. This was day 2 of the alpine valley skiing event organized by Asociatia Montana Carpati. I’ve already written about the first day here. Sunday morning. Crappy weather. Crappy weather forecast for the rest of the day. Eh.. the show must go on. So we boarded the cablecar and climbed to Babele where… surprise! Nice and sunny weather. Since we Continue…