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At 4 am on 26th july 1997 the most people had already been sleeping. Two boys from Szolnok ...
An adventurous bicycletour to the Tatra (1997)
Gyorgyigabor2004-02-05 20:06:24
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At 4 am on 26th july 1997 the most people had already been sleeping. Two boys from Szolnok (Hungary) were putting their things into the packs and put them onto their „experienced” bikes. Me, Gabor Györgyi made my preparations at Budakalász, next to Budapest. Our goal was to go back to the slovakian and polish Tatra by bike. From the „team” Zoltán Maráz had the most experience in biking in Slovakia: he had already climbed 7 times the ascents of the Tatra. Zoltán Rédei and me were twice in the Tatra by bike. Last time, in 1995 we were together there. We planned the trip 13-14 day long. We planned that we would spend our nights mainly in the nature in our tents.
I needed some hours to get used to the 22 kg weighted pack on the bike. At the end of our first day we had to climb to the plateau of the Bükk mountain-range. The idea came from the boys from Szolnok to meet at Répáshuta, in the Bükk. In the evening – with 160 and (for me) 220 kms in our legs – we could plan the following days together. We slept in a hunter-house. In the morning we started cycling in a sunny, but windy weather. We planned biking 130kms that day to arrive at Slovakia. We tried not to cycle on main roads, so we reached Aggtelek late. We crossed the border not much before sunset. Already in our first day we got an introduction by the slovakian climbs: before Plesivec there was a 12% steep ascent and descent. We found a good place for our tents on the grass next to a stream.
Next sunny morning we had breakfast at Roznava. Somewhere we could hear hungarian voices, sentences, because here live hungarians too. Our small team splitted up to two parts. The reason was me, because I wanted to visit an unknown climb next to Krasnahorka. Dedinky-tó partjára. Én a kegyetlen, 8 km-en át 7-10%-os meredek krasznahorkai emelkedõvel ismerkedtem, majd kerülõúton érkeztem a megbeszélt találkozóhelyre. A jéghideg vízben az izzasztó emelkedõk után nem is volt kellemetlen
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