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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

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2004-02-05 20:10:05

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After travelling by the also cheap funicular we hiked towards the Tarpatak waterfalls. After we took delight in it, we went on towards the 2015 m high situated Tery tourist hostel. It had got its name from the hungarian Ödön Téry. On the path we met with fir trees and mini fir trees. Halfway to the hostel we got the view to a high waterfall and to the tourist hostel above it. We arrived there at noon. There are five lakes next to it. We ate our sandwiches on the shore of the lakes in jackets. We warmed ourselves with hot tea in the hostel. Because of the cold air that remained between the high mountains, rockwalls we could see our breath. We continued the tour towards the 2352m high Priecne saddle. After rounding a „hill” we found ourselves at the feet of a very steep rocky section, where the path was made safe by chains which were fixed to the rocks. On the other side the path was full of stones, and somewhere crumbling. After the steep section downwards we were walking on grassy or stony path next to small lakes. We arrived at the Zbojnická tourist hostel at 4 pm. After a short rest we had to continue the trip. On the path towards Smokovec we met with strong carrier who were paid for carry about 40-50 kg things (foods, drinks, plates, bed-clothes) to the tourist hostel that it needed. From Stary Smokovec (where we arrived in dark) we travelled to Tatralomnic by bus, where we had lunch. After arriving at home it was good to „fall” into the bed and take off our boots.
After we slept enough we said good bye to the boys (they went to Poland) and bicycled towards the Lake Strbské and than the 1494m high situated Lake Popradské, where rooms were reserved for us. To Tatralomnic the road was light. The road on lower slopes of the High Tatra – named „Magistrale” – does a connection between the polish border and Liptovsky Hradok. Between them it went through tourist centers like Zdiar, Tatranská Lomnica, Stary Smokovec, Vysné Hagy, Strbské Pleso… After Stary Smokovec the road ascended continuously. We were cycling through fir tree forests, we had only a few view to the rocky tops of the mountains. In a parking place of the Lake Strbské we saw a deer that came out from the forest. From the Strbské lake the road was closed from the cars, so we could enjoy it very much, although it was 18% steep somewhere.

We arrived at the tourists hostel at 4.10 pm. We hadn’t bicycle up to a so high (1494m) place before. For the evening we fell sick. Last day we drank from the water of the mountain lake so we get a stomach upset. We began to feel that the hike to the 2499m high Rysy – that we planned for nex day and waited so much – would be cancelled.
The night was bad, and our shape didn’t changed, so – as we had spoken at home – we called our parents to take us home by car. In the evening we was rolling down carefully to the shore of the Strbské lake. We were sad about our plans that we couldn’t fulfil. We arrived at the parking place after 500,3 km (during 7 days) cycling. Unfortunatelly the homeward travel (by car) was much faster and less interesting than we had planned it by bike.