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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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up for birdvoices in a cloudy morning. We climbed the short ascent next to the lake in rain. On the top we were waiting under the roof of a house which was for saving the people from the rain. Looking at the land towards Dobsina we could see that the clouds from west are thinner and there was some sunshine there. Reaching the valley towards Stratena we made a short detour into a canyon : the thin, not used road went to between high rockwalls and along the bank of a stream. From the icecave Dobsina (although the town is 15-20 kms backwards.) the road ascended gently through the Slovensky Raj. At a roadcross we get views to the mountains of the Lower Tatra. We climbed the 10% steep and 1056m high „Doghill” – that got its name from the two guys from Szolnok – with cycling through a nice and calm fir tree forest and with some flowers next to the road. We had a rest on the top then on the descent we were rolling downwards to the plain of Poprad. Before climbing the last small hillrow before Poprad we got a beautiful view to the peaks of the High Tatra above the hill. A few kilometers before Poprad, when we came out from the forest we got a unforgettable panoramic view to the whole High Tatra. As the guide told us: the mountains ascend towards to the sky from the plain very steep and without any transition. Dark clouds were coming from west. We spent the time of the short rain in a confectioner’s. We bicycled towards Stary Smokovec in the beginning on a pleasant, then on a 12% steep ascent. We wanted to sleep in a camp. (the price for a wooden house for 6 people costed 1000 Sk). At the end we spent the night in a private house in Huncovce. We paid 400 Sk for a night for four person. From the edge of the village we had also nice view to the mountains.
In the morning we travelled to Stary Smokovec. Walking to the funicular railway station we got a view to the top of the 2632 m high Lomnic peak, that had just „come out” from between the clouds.
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