MT-LB personnel carrier

of the type that was shipping goods, troops and the occasional snowboarder up and down Mount Perelik. Note the handgrips and tank tracks - beats your heated chairlift anyday... courtesy of the Department of Defense

Dead Leg III - Heaven had no Ski Lifts

March 4th 1997
Heaven had no ski lifts. Heaven had no piste maps, queues or cafes. But Heaven did have a dull, groaning, grinding Bulgarian Army Tank. It was a roaring metal dragon that broke the silence of the dark green forest with its black smoke fumes and crunching tracks that clunked and bashed through the foot-deep snow. Perelik Mountain - March 1997 (part I - Dead Leg (1)) (part II ... read more

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The Bulgars, a Central Asian Turkic tribe, merged with the local Slavic inhabitants in the late 7th century to form the first Bulgarian state. In succeeding centuries, Bulgaria struggled with the Byzantine Empire to assert its place in the Balkans, b... ... read more

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