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Agnita Lady’s Ride

Posted in LifeStyle with tags , , , , , , on 20 March 2010 by Watcher Romano

A few pictures taken in the course of Agnita Ladies’ Ride:

Valcea Offroad Day – 24 January 2010

Posted in "Art" ??, Beautiful Romania, LifeStyle, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 26 January 2010 by Watcher Romano

On January 24th 2010, I joined the X3M Offroad Valcea crew for a relaxing cruise in the mountains near Valcea. We took a 7 hour, 50 kilometers long stroll in a completely untouched area. As you will see, the snow was pure, clean and shiny white. “The warm sun” we enjoyed refers to the white balance only, because the highest temperature we encountered was -8 degrees Celsius.

I will start off with a few pictures of ‘action’ but will end this post with much more pictures of the beautiful winter scenery we were lucky to encounter:

The official thread of this trip is posted here.

As you have probably noticed, some photos are in the 1080p full-HD format. I would be honored if you used them as wallpapers.

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Peris Adventure Park – offroad trial day – November 7th, 2009

Posted in LifeStyle with tags , , , , , , , , on 9 November 2009 by Watcher Romano

Suzukidojo, ORR and Peris Adventure Park were kind enough to work fore some weeks to put together a whole offroad day some 25 km from Bucharest. Registration was free, everybody took one lap around the track, then the best 10 took a second lap, and then awards were given :-)   It was a very fun day, with a very nice track for the Open. Here are the essential shots:

I did much better as a copilot than as a pilot :-D . That means I chose a good pilot to ride shotgun to, so I got second place as a copilot. As a pilot I got stuck as a result of an unlucky combination of small wheels, big car, bad driver :-D . All in all it was a great day!

PS: if you liked these photos, there is a guy who has much better ones

Olanesti Offroad Day

Posted in LifeStyle with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 15 September 2009 by Watcher Romano

When: Sunday September 14th
Meeting Point: Ramnicu Valcea, Romania
Who: 15 cars, motorcycles, ATVs
What for:

Finish Point: Horezu, Romania

Leaota once again, more extreme this time

Posted in Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 8 September 2009 by Watcher Romano

We found another way up to Leaota. This one took us up to a deserted sheepfold  near the top of Leaota 1 (that’s how the shepherds described it). It was raining heavily, and and the ascent was quite difficult: rocks, tree roots, mud, tight spots between trees, the works. 1 kilometer ascent in 2 hours. Nice track, huh?

Cheia Offroad with Mania team (bonus shots)

Posted in LifeStyle with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 9 July 2009 by Watcher Romano

Back in april I told you about a offroad day with the 4x4Mania team. At the time I was too busy sweating my ass to be able to get enough pictures, and did not bring a copilot.  Just before geting on the track I got the luck of Dan from BGS joining me as a copilot, together with his camera. I met him again in Buzau two weeks ago and he sent me these photos with me in action:

Valcea Offroad

Posted in LifeStyle, Non Travel-Related Photography with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 29 June 2009 by Watcher Romano

Wrong turn

Wrong turn

Buzau – Izvoranu Offroad

Posted in LifeStyle, Non Travel-Related Photography with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 27 June 2009 by Watcher Romano

Saturday June 28th I took a trip together with 3 other Patrol drivers to Buzau, to watch the trial of the Buzau Extreme Adventure Cup. Since the trial was scheduled to start at 15:00 we decided to go for some offroad of our own :-)

Here’s a movie that does not accurately depict how bad the portion was: laterla incline, mud, steep, narrow. Had we not had wheel spacers and negative ET wheels, we could never have made it…

Be sure to check the other videos from the same guy too!

Unfortunately my camera has benn dropped into a ditch of water and mud, so no more pictures from new events for some time now :-(

Luckily, I still have tons of photos taken in previous trips that  I still need to publish :-)

PS: I got some more videos (PLEASE! watch WITHOUT sound!)

Leaota Offroad

Posted in Beautiful Romania, LifeStyle, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 15 June 2009 by Watcher Romano

This weekend was ‘offroad sandwich’ weekend (‘offroad pe paine’). Saturday I got some ‘extreme’ action near Sinaia : the mud in the forest on Cumpatu was considerably more wet and deeper than expected. But then,on Sunday, I visited an area with landscapes rivaling Curmatura Oltetului and Transalpina: the Leaota Mountains in Dambovita County. It was a good opportunity for the KDJ120 Land Cruiser to be ‘broken in ‘ outside the asphalt.

Most of the action took place on a great scenery, posing little trouble (one just neede tot go slowly, because there were a lot of rocks). However, we did manage to find a trail into the forrest that gave us a lot of headaches. Definitely will visit again! Here’s why:

Calugareni Fun AGAIN

Posted in LifeStyle with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 1 June 2009 by Watcher Romano

Saturday night at 2300, just before going to bed, I open the 4×4 forums and find an invitation to Calugareni, for a short outing. It was a warm, dry day, which shifted the focus of our escapade from a mudding one to a climbing one.  I appologize for most of the pics, ONLY the good ones were taken by me (can you spot them?) :-)

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