Mátrabérc 56

tour details: " Mátrabérc 56 " (2009.04.25 Saturday)

Distance walked : 55.4 km
Stage Time : 11hour 44min
Start : 06:14am
Finish 17:58pm
Sleep time before hiking : 3hour 30min, Sirok-castle catacombs

energy input during the whole hiking

I.R.O.N dude

washing feet into the brook is fun like orgasm" (after 42 kilometres)

This was an excellent conditioning hiking for me! We specialised on up-hill rushes. So, we performed speed-climbs by overtaking many people towards the top, and on the "hill"-tops we just let ourselves wasting the time by laying down, chill. After that, the rush started again with the next hill to lift up. This is one of the highest altitude tours that i know in Hungary. The overall altitude is 2734 meters. Unfortunately our highest hill in Hungary is only 1014m high (it's included in this tour of course), so the solution is to add some lowhills together, climb them from each to the other and then get the desired idea, that we climbed a great hill in the alps (for example). That's what this great tour about.

my GPS altitude results

this is from the website of this tour

my altitude paper

my checkpoint-stamp collector paper

Piros 50 A

Distance walked : 52,5 km (according to my GPS results)
Stage Time : 10hours 47min
Start: 07:05am
Finish: 17:52pm
Sleep time before hiking : 2hour 50min

"Piros 50 A" was the name of this well organized hiking on Saturday. It means: 50km long A-stage. "A" means the first 50km of the total 85km route. It was the 6th official performance-hiking in my life. The first one was the same like this, on 29th of October, 2005.The last one was on the 5th of April, 2008 and 50km long one also. My hiking-mate was Álmos, the younger brother of Áron (I.R.O.N) my greatest architect friend, who is in Poland now. So that we named our challenge: "Iron memorial tour". This time we got perfect weather, which means the rain rained only when i wanted it. I started with empty stomach, and felt myself close to have a "black screen" in any moment. Fortunately i didn't Knocked out before time, so we reached Dömös village (Checkpoint at halfway [30km]) at noon. I ate two sandwiches that the organisers gave me. (it is in the fee that we paid at the start of the tour). That tuned me up, and tossed me towards the 35km Checkpoint on the second highest hill of Hungary, the Dobogókő hilltop with brilliant panorama(pictures above and below). There i implanted two fresh young bananas with a beer and wanted to stay there forever %). Soon we started to go down the last 15km-s. (to be continued..)

Dobogókő hill-top panorama

Dobogókő photo matched to GoogleEarth viewpoint

iwan painmap (at the end of day)