Babele - Cuibu Dorului Mountain Biking |
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I had been meaning to go mountain biking on the Bucegi plateau for a long time but I never imagined it could be this much fun. Because I am really short on time I will just give you a log of Saturday's events.
7:53 am - bikes and equipment loaded on car ready to go
8:27 am - arrival at base cable car station in Busteni
9:00 am - ready for departure on top of the plateau at 2170 m altitude
10:17 am - fell off my bike, head-first, into a ditch. Thank you, 661!
10:30 am - found my 14th geocache 7.7 km south of Babele at 1665 m altitude
11:55 am - begining descent from the Bolboci cross-road.
12:21 pm - Ionut popped both tyres on the last run before Cuibu Dorului
12:32 pm - continuing on my own on the road towards Sinaia
1:02 pm - short break in the park in Sinaia
1:23 pm - found a place to leave my bike while I go to Busteni to recover my car
1:56 pm - back in the car, heading back to recover my bike and Ionut
2:31 pm - found Ionut in Sinaia almost done fixing the tyres
2:56 pm - bikes and equipment loaded on car
3:19 pm - back home
The round trip was about 42 km in total. Of these I did about 30 on my bike, 4 by cable car and the rest by car from Sinaia to Busteni to recover my car. I did not count the morning trip to Busteni or the trip back from Busteni to Sinaia after recovering the car. You can see exactly what's included by looking at the map of the trip.
The altitude difference was 1391 m, between 2170 m and 779 m. The whole trip was mostly downhill as you can see on the altitude profile of the trip.
Some photos can be seen in the Babele Mountain Bike Portfolio photo album although they aren't necessarily very relevant to the trip itself.
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