Comments on: Pestera Village Surroundings

By: watcherromano

watcherromano — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:08:26 +0000

I think we may be talking about different ascents, because I have heard about “mine” from people that have done it by car…

By: Prolegomene

Prolegomene — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:15:33 +0000

Great pictures (especially the first one) and great surrounding. As for the climbing, both the ascents are very difficult and only for experienced climbers in very good shape (chains and staff).

By: HalbaSus

HalbaSus — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:04:20 +0000

PS: looks like html code is censored even if used without “<", what i meant is "As long as you can embed html code ( i.f.r.a.m.e )"

By: HalbaSus

HalbaSus — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:01:45 +0000

As long as you can embed html code ( ) you can embed google maps into your website (something like this: http://vestaudit.ro/harta.htm ).

By: watcherromano

watcherromano — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:34:23 +0000

Yes indeed!
Ever since I went up there for the first time I wanted to go back, because, as you probably remember, there was some mud on a descent, and I did not have the courage to go down, not being certain that the car would make it back.
And the road from Zarnesti to Magura and then Pestera (and the Sirnea) is shown on the MOL road atlas with white/grey which means you never know what you will find.
It’s another reason I wanted to get a real 4×4 – to never ask myself if a road on the map would damage my car…

By: pinky C

pinky C — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:36:45 +0000

nice ‘surroundings’ as far as i remember…

By: watcherromano

watcherromano — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:25:59 +0000

Yup, if the snow is fresh you will need 4×4 traction , and probably some ground clearance. But being quite a big village, I imagine that they make some efforts to clean the roads so people can bring food to the local stores.

As for the ascent to Piatra Craiului, I have heard about it three times already, but there seems to be some serious rockcrawling involved…

I also am a bit afraid of the fact that there is a national reservation and that the fines are HUGE (think 3000 RON = EUR 700 ) if you happen to put your wheels outside the marked territory ….

By: horza

horza — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:29:10 +0000

check with the locals before attempting to reach pestera by snow, because some of my friends tried that a few years ago and had to park about 5 km away and be taken to their accomodations by a local guy with a 4×4.

it might’ve changed over these years, but still

also very nice place and if you are into mountain climbing there’s a nice ascent to Piatra Craiului aside from the regular zarnesti-plaiu foii route. (as far as I’ve been told )