Day 35 - Mt Leaota to Bucharest, 318 km. The End.
What an awesome finish to my TET!
Boy, did I make the right decision stopping last night, and leaving to the morning 6km of spindly steep single track descent to the valley. Lethal otherwise.
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| Turns out it was a pretty good spot after all, even in the cold hard light of day. |
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| The bit I forewent last night. Not sorry. |
Skipped loop around Lake Bolboci for ridge-lines run north to Brasov. And what a stunner. Fast and flowing up top, but getting there and then up was pretty gnarly.
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| Please Jon, say I get to ride up that! |
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| I do I do I do! |
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| I'm not sure following the black and white poles along the ridge-top is the DS solution. The route follows the hardcore-covered trail slightly lower. But I was riding in well worn tyre tracks. |
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| You can just make out the trail in the distance. |
This was the best ridge-line ride yet, riding right up to and along the precipice. I did *not* want to overcook any of the blind summits here! Those poles are essential!
Dropped off TET and the ridge line at Azuga, from the top of a ski-lift down what turned out to be fabulously tight, steep, sinewy MTB single-track.
Then 33km of slab to Brasov for lunch, and the balance of 200km back to Bucharest. Simple. So I thought. But the moment I joined the A3 my fuel light came on, and there are no service stations (just tempting signs for where they might one day be built).
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| Brasov |
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| Ah. Four kind people stopped but couldn't really help, besides drawing me my natty sign. I called a mate from Bucharest to rescue me with a petrol can. |
Even now the riding might have stopped, but adventure hasn't quite yet: still need to work out how my bike and kit is getting home. Glad I've got a bed to sleep in and shower and laundry tonight.
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| This, I thought just looked pretty. |
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| NB: Functionality disabled to prevent extracting KML. If you want to follow the route, get the latest data from TransEuroTrail.org |
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