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Leaota Offroad

Posted in Beautiful Romania, LifeStyle, Travel with tags bucegi, cai salabatici, cai salabitic, cal salabtec, kdj, kdj120, land cruiser, land cruiser prado, lc120, leaota, nissan, nissan offroad, nissan patrol, nissan y61, off road, offroad, patrol, patrol y61, prado, salbatici, toyota, toyota land cruiser prado, toyota offroad, wild horse, wild horses, y61 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:

: Directions

: Niste Tarani

: Ascent

: Safari Snorkel

: KDJ by WCR

: KDJ Fun

: Rough Spot

: KDJ – Tight Spot

: Rough Spot

: KDJ – Tight Spot

: WCR @ Leaota

: Wild Horse

: Wild Horse

: Where

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Calugareni Fun AGAIN

Posted in LifeStyle with tags calugareni, calugareni offroad, calugareni offroade, hill climb, hills, mitrubisi, mitsubishi pajero, mitsubishi pajero offroad, nissan, nissan offroad, nissan patrol, nissan patrol offroad, nissan patrol y61, off road, offraoding, offroad, patrol offroad, patrol y61, Watcher, watcher offroad, y61, y61 offroad 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?)

: Mironas Fun

: Number for eternity

: PAJEROS-CROSS

: STEEP-DESCENT

: A big heart

: Stuck

: Stuck

: WCR-ANIMATED-ASCENT

: WCR

: You’ll never make it! – Oh, Really?

: You’ll never make it! – Oh, Really?

: STEEP-DESCENT

: STEEP-DESCENT

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There’s no such thing as SOFT with Oresti

Posted in LifeStyle with tags 4x4mania, cheia, cheia offroad park, nissan, nissan patrol, offf road, offroad, offroading, oresti, patrol, vheia, y61 on 24 May 2009 by Watcher Romano

Cheia Offroad Park had an ‘open weekend’ on May 23rd and 24th. This weekend was the ‘soft’ trial. But of course, there is no such thing as “soft” with Oresti. In my opinion, the minimum requirements for completing the track on you own were Simex(like) tyres and a winch.

Here’s how it looked like – and keep in mind, I was not able to shoot the ‘heavy parts’ as I was driving:

: Teamwork

: Portrait

: Mission Impossible

: Marius Lupu Style

: Just Before

: Luigi in action

: Luigi in action

: Luigi in action

: Luigi – Damage

: Kaiser Fun

: Rescue Op

: Uite-atat

: VolkerV

: I am not stuck

: I am not stuck

: NOW I am stuck

: NOW I am stuck

: Roll out the cable!

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Luana – Paths into the Unknown – May 2009

Posted in Travel with tags bozioru, g-klasse, luana, mercedes, mercedes g-klasse, nissan, nissan patrol, off road, off the road, offroad, offroading, patrol, y61 on 19 May 2009 by Watcher Romano

Last weekend (May 15th – May 17th), beautiful Bozioru hosted a traditional offroad event: Luana – Paths into the Unknown.

Participants arrived late on Friday evening and socialized untill all the palinca was gone.
Saturday was the day for offroading. We split in 2 ‘classes’ – I went for the ‘open’ which was advertised as longer. They also told me that I would have problems crossing one point in the ‘extreme’ track, because the car was too wide.

As any responsible person would have done, we turned the ‘open’ into ‘extreme’ too
Here are the pictures recorded with my camera at this event:

: Semaca

: Rotty 1st ascend

: Navara

: Navara

: Iulia – ‘ravena’

: Teamwork

: Iulia Stuck

: Teamwork

: General Clatita to the Rescue

: Teamwork

: I wanna wreck my car too

: Goganu 1st ascend

: Nasu Mare – Ditch

: Semaca

: Funny?

: Crossaxle

: WCR – Ditch

: Mud

: ‘Ravena’

: ‘Ravena’

: Through a river

: Narrow Road Ahead!

: Niku Iorga Repair Shop

: Uite-l ma ce a facut!

: Maaamaaaaa!!

: Rotty Jr

: Election Year

: Leader

: Babyface Assasin

: Cat and Bear

: Croitor

On Sunday I went back home on alternative routes, and there will be another post with those pictures

If you want to see more pictures from the event, this is the official pictures thread.

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Outdoor weekend

Posted in Beautiful Romania, Travel with tags adventure, bucegi, carpati, diham, expedition, nissan, nissan patrol, offroad, paraul rece, patrol, piatra arsa, poiana izvoarelor, sinaia, y61 on 13 May 2009 by Watcher Romano

I just could not brnig myself to name this post anything with ‘offroad’. Last weekend I took a trip to Paraul Rece, for a meeting. With a little help from some forum colleagues (thank you!) I took two pleasurable trips in the area:

from Paraul Rece to Diham and then to Poiana Izvoarelor (first 5 pictures) – funny, interesting, easy with just one difficult part: a steep and closed turn covered in deep snow. I had to find an alternative path (quite steep and verry narrow, with nothing to the right)
from Sinaia to Piatra Arsa (next 4 pictures) – the scenery has imprinted itwself in our minds – there were literally acres of crocuses and no noises, just the wind and the greatness of The Mountain…

Pictures

: 4 x 4

: WCR on the track to Poiana Izvoarelor

: Purple Meadow

: Bucegi Panorama

: Bucegi Panorama

: Piatra Arsa – Directions

: Purple Meadow

: Purple Meadow

: Yes, I did go there

: Real offroading

: Took some work

: (W)inching out

As you may have noticed, there are more than just 9 pictures posted Yes !! I did do some real offroading: Saturday evening I just entered into the forest, trying to see how far I would reach. It was soliciting but rewarding because:

there was just one car (broken rule #1)
there was just me in the car (broken adagio to rule#1)
I had no idea about the track, conditions, etc.
I made it up – not far away, but after some struggle (moving dead trees, winching, and trying to find a place where the trees were wide enough so that I could exit the forest! )

I also tried to go to Poiana Izvoarelor on Saturday evening but I got a wrong track so I got stuck and had to return, but that gave me some adrenalin too:

lateral inclination
very narrow path – that’s why I had to stop – at a point it became to narrow for the Y61
getting dark

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Cheia Offroad Day with 4x4Mania team

Posted in Travel with tags 4x4mania, cheia, jeep, kaiser, nissan, nissan patrol, off road, offroad, patrol, y61 on 12 April 2009 by Watcher Romano

Alfonso has convinced me to be a pilot on Saturday April 11th (instead of a copilot), so I joined the 4x4Mania team in Cheia for a day in the forest. Driving through the forrest, on muddy steep hills, following 42″ ruts, passing between trees wide enough for the car WITHOUT mirrors was very fun but also challenging , so I only managed to snap a few pics. I hope my photographer copilot will help me post some pics with ME in action too

: Radu Preparing

: What I have put togehter

: Steep Descent

: Rescue Op

: Pottery

: Landscapeing

: Kaiser Fun

: Front locker on, car on it’s fron axle alone, reverse, gas, BREAK

: This happens like everytime!

: Camouflaged Kaiser – memories of its original purpose

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Balotesti Offroad Day

Posted in LifeStyle with tags balotesti, cross axle, crossaxle, g-klasse, gklasse, jeep, kaiser, landcruiser, mercedes, mercedes g-klasse, mercedes gklasse, nissan, nissan patrol, off road, offroad, patrol, Romania, steep descent, toyota, toyota land cruiser on 3 March 2009 by Watcher Romano

Sunday, March 1st, beautiful sunny day in Bucharest.

What could one do but go out to Balotesti, meet some other 4×4 enthusiasts and:

(there are 2 categories of pictures – “forum” – 800 px wide and “web” – 1200 px wide)

If offroad is your thing, stay tuned for more (RSS or EMAIL) because you can bet there will be more to come!

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8th February Offroad Expedition – final installment

Posted in LifeStyle with tags g-klasse, nissan, nissan patrol, off road, offroad, offroad expedition, tractozaur, Watcher on 11 February 2009 by Watcher Romano

These are the last photos I will publish from our offroad expedition around Bucharest:

: Goganu Portrait

: Tractozaur making waves

: Worldscape

: G-klasse in reverse

: Tata in Action

: Filip

: Filip

: Photographers work hard

: Photographers work hard

: Maganimous

: Uberlawyer

: Cool audience

: Watcher fun

: Watcher Fun

: Winching

: Watcher fun

: Watcher down the stairs

: Watcher mud

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February 8th Offroad Expedition (2)

Posted in LifeStyle with tags ditch, expedition, nissan, nissan patrol, off road, offroad, offroad expedition on 10 February 2009 by Watcher Romano

Second installment of pictures from the February 8th offroad expedition around Bucharest, Romania:

: No entry

: This is how it’s done

: Tractozaur across the ditch

: Judge across the ditch

: Worldscape across the ditch

: Watcher across the ditch

: Bullbar across the ditch

: Goganu across the ditch

: Napoleon

: WCR Popemobile

: Judge

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Calugareni Offroad Day

Posted in LifeStyle, Travel with tags 4wd, 4x4, calugareni, campfire, hill, hillclimb, jeep, jeep rubicon, land cruiser, motoparachute, mud, nissan, nissan navara, nissan patrol, off road, offroad, patrol, river crossing, rubicon, sinan, toyota, toyota land cruiser, winter fun, winter offroad on 12 January 2009 by Watcher Romano

Saturday January 10th, 2009, the swampy fields, forest and snowy hills near Calugareni, Romania hosted a 4×4 gathering comprising of some 35 cars and their crews, kids, moto-parachutes and some dogs. Everything was planned here (Romanian Language). Some say it was a light offroad day, some say it was just light drinking. Here are some pictures from the event. There are a few more to come. I apologize for doubling some photos but it was the quickest way I could post them on several sites. There are three sizes of files: HD (1920×1080), web (800x something) and ‘regular’ – 1200 x something). Every photo can be used for non commercial purposes (that means that if someone uses it as a wallpaper I’d be glad )