My name is Horia Mărușcă. Born in a mountain city, Sibiu, I wandered the Carpathian trails from an early age, on foot and on skis in the beginning, and on the bike later on. The passion for mountain activities lead to a professional mountain guide license in 1998, being a member of the Romanian Mountain Guides Association (RMGA) ever since.
Starting with 2018 I am also a MIAS qualified Level 1 and 2 mtb guide. From 2022 I am involved in the RIMS Initiative, part of the wider EO-MTBing – European Organization of Mountain Bike Instructor-Guides movement.
Following journalism and communication studies at Bucharest University, I focused initially on video production and anthropology documentary film-making, and also on photography, graphic and web design.
Since early 2000 I am free-lancing, alternating photo, video and design projects with trekking tours in the Carpathians, while doing a lot of mountain biking as a hobby. mtbtours.ro started as a biker’s blog and then gradually changed into a web platform for publishing and promoting my mountain bike tours. I am fluent in English, good at French and I have a basic grasp of German.
