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Brasov Offroad day with Flow

Posted in LifeStyle with tags crossaxle, kdj120, land cruiser, land cruiser 120, mud, nissan, off road, offroad, patrol, watcher & flow, y61 on 30 March 2010 by Watcher Romano

Last weekend I was in the Brasov area. I did phone several offroaders from Brasov but they decided they had better things to do on Saturday. The only person who graciously accepted my invitation was the infamous FLOW . He was kind enough to revamp his entire schedule (he was attending a drifting show at the mall !) and lead us on a very interesting and challenging offroad track. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves:

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Valcea Offroad Day – 24 January 2010

Posted in "Art" ??, Beautiful Romania, LifeStyle, Travel with tags 1080p, Beautiful Romania, full hd, g-klasse, g-klasse offroad, hd, jimny offroad, landscape, mercedes g-klasse, nissan patrol, nissan patrol offroad, off road, offroad, patrol, ramnicu valcea, snow, suzuki jimny, suzuki jimny offroad, valcea, wallpaper, wallpapers, winter, x3m offroad valcea, y61 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:

: TYH Portrait

: 4×4 winter poster

: Really bad shot of a good moment

: A little bit of help uphill (if you slow down the boat, it sinks)

: Vitara action

: Dacos crazy action !

: Dacos crazy action !

: Team effort

: Tough even for ATVs

: Explorers

: What to do when your ATV’s tire comes off the rim

: Dacos Super Shot

: Lel winter portrait

: Lel winter wallpaper

: And now? Which way?

: Can you spot the Dacos? (1080p)

: Can you spot the Dacos?

: Winter Panorama (1080p)

: Winter Panorama (ultrawide)

: Winter Panorama (1080p)

: Winterscape

: Winterscape

: Forest in the winter

: Forest in the winter (1080p)

: Orchard in the winter

: Orchard in the winter (1080p)

: Winter Panorama (1080p)

: Winter Panorama (1080p)

: Winter Panorama (1080p)

: Winter Panorama (ultrawide)

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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The simple life (again)

Posted in Beautiful Romania, Travel with tags adunatori ciuperci, ciupercari, ciupercia, living in tents, mountain life, mushroom, mushroom gatherer, off road, offroad, simple life, strategic, strategica, tents on 4 November 2009 by Watcher Romano

Since last autumn I wanted to revisit Trasnsalpina. This summer I was able to up the game and do Transalpina a second time, but also include the Strategic road in that day’s trip. I will tell you more about the Strategic road in following posts. For now I will just tell you that it, like Transalpina, was built by the Germans in the second World War and is a 60km dirt road going from starting from nowhere, going to the middle of another road .

It makes however a great trip for sightseeing and for testing your suv or crossover. It’s a child’s play for real 4×4′s . After some 45 out of 56 kilometres I found this settlement of mushroom gatherers! Literally in the middle of nowhere, these guys had power generators and lived in Quechua tents underneath the plastic covers…

Mushroom gatherers camp on the Strategic road in Sibiu County

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Offroad pictures from the expedition in the Capatanii Mountains

Posted in Beautiful Romania, LifeStyle with tags balota, capatanii, capatanii mountains, kdj120, kdj120l, land cruiser, land cruiser 120, muntii capatanii, off road, offroad, suzuki offroad, suzuki vitara, suzuki vitara offroad, toyota land cruiser, toyota land cruiser offroad, ursu, varful balota, varful ursu, vf balota, vf ursu, victorious, victory, vitara, vitara offroad on 6 October 2009 by Watcher Romano

As promised in yesterday’s post, today I give you the ‘offroad’ pictures we shot in our one day expedition in the Capatanii mountains:

Haiducii Muscelului

WCR

Markus in action

In the next photo I am trying to conquer Balota peak and White Wolf Tavi is escorting to help in case of an accident. The others were waiting for us on the previous peak (Ursu). Tavi’s father asked us to leave him out of the car

The brave

And this is me after (finally) catching my breath again. I had left the car on the top of the peak and went descended on foot to check for a way to continue to the other side. I was not able to find a route and then realised I had wandered very far from the car. It took me around 20 minutes to go back (up) to tha car !!

Watcher conquers Balota peak

Watcher after conquering Balota

As a short disclaimer, this was not an ‘offroad’ day per se, we did do some things that we could not have done with small cars, but offroadwise it was a very soft day (if we leave out the ascend on Balota, where nobody would join me)

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Olanesti Offroad Day

Posted in LifeStyle with tags Horezu, izvor 24, izvorul 24, jimny, jimny offroad, mitsunishi offroad, mtsubishi pajero, nissan patrol, nissan patrol offroad, off road, offroad, olanesti, pajero offroad, patrol, patrol offroad, suzuki jimny, y60 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 j12 offroad, kdj120l, leaota, nissan, nissan patrol, nissan patrol offroad, off road, offroad, toyota, toyota j12, toyota j12 offroad, toyota land cruiser, toyota offroad, y61, y61patrol 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?

: KDJ Coming Back

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Cheia Offroad with Mania team (bonus shots)

Posted in LifeStyle with tags 4x4mania, cheia, extreme, extreme offroad, nissan offroad, nissan patrol, nissan patrol y61, off road, offroad, offroad mania, patro y61, patrol offroad, warn winch, winch, winching, y61 off road, y61 offroad 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:

: WCR in MANIA style action

: WCR in MANIA style action

: WCR in MANIA style action

: WCR in MANIA style action

: WCR in MANIA style action

Valcea Offroad

Posted in LifeStyle, Non Travel-Related Photography with tags damage, danger, extreme, extreme offroad, forest, lateral incline, nissan offroad, nissan patrol, off road, offroad, olanesti, patrol offroad, valcea, Watcher, wwoc on 29 June 2009 by Watcher Romano

: Damage Report

: Winching out

: Winching out

: Hard winching

: Team work

: Danger zone

: Uphill dive!

Wrong turn

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Buzau – Izvoranu Offroad

Posted in LifeStyle, Non Travel-Related Photography with tags accident, forest, gu patrol, hill climb, mud, nissan, nissan patrol, nissan patrol y60, nissan patrol y61, off road, offroad, patrol, patrol gr, y60, y61, [atrol gu 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…