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After long planning és some training I and a friend of mine (from the secondary school), Csaba Budavári started to „conquer” the Tatra by bicycle.
1993, Tatra bicycletour
Gyorgyigabor2004-02-05 20:10:05
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we arrived at the camp of Aggtelek at 8.30 pm. After shower we could hardly choose from the meals in the restaurant, because there was a few left. (In 1993 !)
Next morning we went on a short hike to the rocky Baradla hill, after it and eating a water-melone we crossed the slovakian border. After the border the land didn’t changed; it was hilly and karstic, not much before Plesivec there was a difficult 12% steep climb. Between Plesivec and Roznava we was biking in a flat valley with steep 5-600m high mountains each side. From Roznava towards the town Dobsina – which is famous for its icecave – the road was sometimes flat or gently sloping. The mountains were higher and higher. The serpentine road started after the town. We enjoyed very much the land, the ascent, because of the fir trees, the view and because we were on a true mountain-ascent. From the 870m high top we rolled down to the 2km far situated Lake Dedinky, where there was busy swim- and bath-life. The lake is surrounded by fir tree forests, somewhere we could see rocks and at the end of the lake there is a little, nice village. It’s a nice place. We hadn’t reserved room only for that night of the tour, so I had to search a room where to sleep. While searching accomodation I hear hungarian words. A young hungarian pair of biketourists had already arrived there. They (Zoltán Maráz and Nagy) were 27 year old, came from Szolnok (Hungary) and that was their – maybe – fourth Tatra-biketour. Because we couldn’t find a room, they offered us to sleep in a tent of them. We set up our tents behind the next village at the edge of the fir tree forest onto a soft peat. In the evening we made fire to toast bacon. It was a nice evening: we enjoyed the lights of the glowing embers and the voices of the stream from the next. During the talk we heard interesting and funny stories about their tours in Slovakia. That was my first night in a tent, and I liked it.
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