The Diary of a hike across Crimea on May, 7-14th

7.05.06. Gathering of group was at the Simferopol station at a fountain at 8:40. Us it has appeared all three - Katya (Moscow), I (SPb), Alec (Kiev), well and + organizer Cyril. By a trolley bus we have reached to Yalta (2 hours), whence move on marshrutku and through 15 mines were in the Glade of Fairy tales. From the Glade of Fairy tales hardly more to the right the asphalted road with which our hike has begun upwards leaves. Asphalt has soon passed in the soil road leading by base of rest and still(even) of any fences, and then in good nahozhennuju Botkinskuju a track. The track went upward to a falls Wuchang-Су where there come excursion buses and numerous having a rest arrange picnics. But we have gone(send) above, having left it(him) below on track Taraktash. This track has taken upwards much more abruptly and has deduced(removed) us already in a full fog and under a rain on a plateau Ah-»СФУї.

Rise has borrowed(occupied) 6 hours, and was difficult enough. It is not surprising, as all of us is direct from a train, without a breakfast and a dinner, here so have taken and have got uphill without any acclimatization (the truth, with short 5-mines. Breaks on rest). All was similar one Katya - it(she) ran ahead of a planet of all not getting tired at all. In process of rise the nature surrounding us varied. If below there was a spring in a full heat here in lozhbinkah still the snow here and there laid, under legs(foots) fallen down leaves, and trees squelched and did not think to be dismissed.

Under a drizzle in an hour we send(have come) on KSS (item Hunting). Here we were met by very hospitable mistress - things were dried, to sleep has laid. In heat and a cosiness, at last having had supper, we have fallen asleep without back legs(foots)!

 

8.05.06.

Since morning a fog, yes what! I all over again thought, that it at us in the house of a window have misted over, in 10м nothing is visible (the truth while we still slept(burn), the sun like has had time to light). Today we meet 2 more children(guys) from Moscow, they should to 12-ти rise on a cable car to us. Up to kanatki from KSS minutes 30. While went, the rain with a wind, vymokli at all has begun. For children(guys) waited in chajhane where burned a fireplace and it was warm. Alec of all has treated with a dinner and hot green tea, for what to it(him) many thanks! The Life was adjusted.

The guy with the girl from Moscow have appeared are completely not ready to such marching conditions. In 1,5 hours, having been soaked and having frozen, they have gone downwards by a taxi to a small house of the forester under a Eagle Rise. There Cyril has agreed with them to meet in day.

And we have gone further - on pass (?) have curtailed(turned) from the asphalted road on the right aside the Grand Canyon. The track well natoptannaja and is closer to a wood marked, it(she) conducts in a Bald to r. The Hen-ТєСЎэ (a route 53-54 on a card(map) of mountain routes of Crimea). Many groups come across towards, a rain, very much skolzko and is dirty. The track went down along a stream which we some times crossed vbrod or on stones, water not much. Parking "bash-сСУС" Have passed by and somewhere in a fog have found a canopy with hay, probably, shepherd's. About! It was a unique dry slice of the ground. All. Here also have stopped. There was nothing to do(make), the rain poured not ceasing. To sleep have laid down at 20 o'clock. Without a fire and without a supper, but in 4-th in one wet tent, with wet things and under one sleeping bag.

 

9.05.06.

Rise at 6:00 … is not present the Rain! Eh as it is pleasant with utretsa from a warm sleeping bag to get into cold and wet trousers J. Send(have left) at 7:30. There were, that we in a fog zaburilis somewhere not there, therefore we need hardly to return and pass a stream back.

Ha! The Stream? It(he) for a night has turned to a mountain rivulet. Its(his) Cyril has passed, waters there above a hip. And we have gone(send) upwards to search for more comprehensible and safe conditions of a ferry (me there simply would wash off with my weight). In general, such ferries should be organized on TB even along a tree. We have found a fork and send(have passed) 2 polovinki a stream instead of one. Water ice. It is a little having wandered on slopes, we, at last, have gone down to Cyril who all this time waited for us on that I protect, and have continued a way to a canyon. A track dirty and slippery, the rain has again gone.



Have passed by Ф/with "is brisk" and further, on the marked track (a route 2-52) have risen on B.Kanona's right coast r. auzun-ТєСЎэ. Yes.. The canyon, probably, was very beautiful, especially in a fog and under a rain … On a track through everyone 100м labels "КС-100" are drawn. Somewhere about 15 hours we have gone down to a small house of foresters, having passed the bridge through r. Kokozka and the asphalted road leading from Ah-»СФУї up to item Falcon.. The camp site, cafe, stalls Here settle down. At an input(entrance) in reserve posters - an input(entrance) paid - 7гр are hanged out. Children(guys) from Moscow have left vosvojasi, having left us all part of an allocation, and also a sleeping bag and tent. We have spent the night in a small house of foresters, have lit the stove and have dried up things.

 

10.05.06.

Since morning we with Katya, at last have washed heads in r. Kokozke, well! The sun! J from a small house of foresters we have directed hardly more to the right and upwards on well equipped track leading by parking "ford Jablonevyj" to a falls " Silver jets " (r. Almachuk). On a card(map) - маршрут39-41. A falls stunned! Under it(him) there is a grotto in which it is possible to climb (it it is desirable in dry weather). Having waded on the right coast of a stream, we send(have left) on wood road which conducted upwards to " the Tea small house " (ur. Small Babulgan).

On the right has remained behind JUsupovsky a pond (nice pool, it(he) a dam). Further very picturesque road opening a panoramic kind on a valley and mountains, has gradually passed in a long streamer on a large forest. " Tea small house " (byv. Khruschev's summer residence) nowadays represents private(individual) houses and a cordon of foresters around of a small pond. Have visited(attended) any guerrilla cave with the memorable tablet about events 41-42гг. Then we have gone down to a cordon "Ah-сїјїФУї®" on the track marked by "tridents". There there is a board with the scheme(plan) of district and the index on with. Collective-farm (the left fork of road). The wood dim road has crossed r. Uzundzha (vbrod) also has deduced(removed) us in a valley of smart peonies which grew there red kuchkami everywhere. Together with separately costing(standing) derevtsami freakish forms, a juicy grass and bright paints of colors(flowers) and bushes, all this created sensation of a heavenly spot! Alec as the child was pleased to aromas of colors(flowers), laying on a meadow. And the main thing - today all the day long shines the sun!!! J the road accompanied by peonies, smoothly has deduced(removed) us on the top of gorge Uzundzha. Then again descent(release) to r. Uzundzha, and on the contrary with. Collective-farm (byv. p/Ѕ Mountain) we have put camp (near to Ф/with Uzundzha). Ur! There was a fire and selective bathing in small river! And still the moon and stars!

 

11.05.06.

Since morning the sun, send(have left) at all I do not know when. Ford small river and have soon got on the asphalted road leading to item Rodnikovskoe. Not reaching it(him) we have turned on the left to cave Skelskaaja (m-Ф 5). Here carry excursions, road asphalted. Still, demanding a routing leaf(sheet) and a payment for spending the night the meticulous foresters here live in tent in territory of reserve - 8гр/чел-night. It is possible and otmazatsja. An input(entrance) in a cave - 15гр. At group from 5 chel. A cave beautiful, greater(big), age more 2млн. Years, it is opened(open) in 1904г., the name is translated as "Spring" with dr.grech. It(she) 3 urovnevaja (halls, gallery and lake). The underground lake has length nearby 70м, width 4м and depth 30м and is informed with CHernorechenskim vdhr. Next year cave explorers promised to include in an excursion route driving by a boat on this lake. To the left of a cave the track upward which has deduced(removed) us on the ancient Roman road which has been laid out by the rests kamnnej and connecting Ah-»СФУї with Forosskoj by a fortress (?) began. The road has constant rise and leads Ф/with Karadagsky the Wood. Here there are 3 boggy ponds, a well and a monument to heroes-guerrillas. From a well on a fork we have gone(send) more to the right and any wood dim roads-zigzags by the evening send(have left) on per. The Shaitan-јСУсуСЎ (the Devil's Ladder here begins). Mountain Bjuzjuka thus have bypassed at the left. In a streamlet we have typed(collected) waters and on a lodging for the night have risen hardly further on road on Foros. There the field was stretched beautiful pokosnoe. On edge(territory) of a field the cypress under which there was a well with technical water grew. Ah, yes, - in second half of day the rain has again begun to drizzle.

 

12.05.06.

Has become cold. There was a rain at night. Since morning on a floor(field) that shone the sun flew clouds, bringing with itself a wet cool. And still.. On a cypress that grows above a well, the whole ambush of ticks was found out! They there guard extraction. Everyone who went since morning to a well to wash - ticks have caught. Today we are going to reach the sea in area p/Ѕ Laspi (m-Ф 8). On ridge Forosskoj of a wall send(have left) under drizzle L. The sea, speak, at the left? Mountains, speak, on the right? Nothing is visible, a fog as pair milk.. But colors(flowers) around - the sea! All bright, multi-coloured, here even them is visible always. All road under legs(foots) us is accompanied with flowers! Have soon gone down on a highway leading in Foros. Forosskaja the church is downwards on highway 500м. A kind class, all is pure(clean), uhozheno. Upwards on highway 300м are Bajdarskie the Gate (anything especial). Directly behind them (behind restaurant) the wide track on item Kizilovoe (a red arrow and markers) begins. From settlement the track leaves hardly upwards. Here we were again overtaken with a fog. Under shouts of the deer protecting the possession, and in a fog we have gone astray true. Similar, we have taken away too to the left. GPS in such conditions - a piece irreplaceable. It is a little having strayed, Cyril has deduced(removed) us through a crest on a track. On a track send(have left) on soil road, have curtailed(turned) to the right and send in addition(have reached) up to asf. Roads. Eh, it is a pity it was not visible, where we go. Therefore and to describe difficultly - where send(have come)? In general, asf. The road has rested against the Sevastopol highway. We have turned on the left and have seen the index " Laspi 3км " a fork to the right. Have gone down down to »/camp Laspi, have bypassed it(him), having left at the left. Here through camp the stream - similar unique source of water at this coast proceeds. At last we have reached the sea! At coast there is a whole heap of parking which to last up to in/part behind cape Ajja. Than further - that places are more picturesque. Beautiful slopes, twisting track along steep coast, mountain behind, a rustle of waves, shouts chaek, dolphins on horizon … eh! The Fog and rains have remained somewhere above. And here with fire wood here not so, all of them salty and smelly. The coast too has not been cleaned(removed) since winter - dust, ooze, the dead(sickly) birds, the thrown out dolphins, fishes, and a smell of all of it(this).. Coast stony - large stones and a pebble. But water pure(clean) (though and ~10оС), and we with Katya were expiated. There was a full moon, places - stars, a lunar path … Beauty at night! Only a wind cool. Then there were otvalnaja with wine at kosterka, any conversations on something high, about books, about hikes and difficulties, mutual compliments …, etc.

And everything, dispatch(deliver;have missed) to sleep … tomorrow all to part on different cities.

 

13.05.06.

I remain up to tomorrow, or can it is a little more. And the others leave. Katya and Alec up to Kiev, Cyril - to Simferopol to meet the next group. From here rise up to highway is borrowed(occupied) with 50 minutes It is 27-th km of the Yalta highway. Marshrutki to Sevastopol go in half an hour, go minutes 40 and cost(stand) 6гр. Have said goodbye.

And here I odyn, sovsem odyn! At last, it is possible to inspect easy vicinities without a cargo behind shoulders, to admire landscapes not hurrying up anywhere.. I have walked along coast for cape Ajja up to a fence in/part. What beautiful track goes along all coast, to be stunned! As in a garden, it(she) here and there someone is decorated by a border from stones. What places class, parking, kinds... Eh, it is a pity, only 1 day on the sea as it is not enough! As I have become bored(have missed) on all to it(this)! It would be desirable to remember each turn, each tree, a flower, to keep in itself all this landscape. The sea and mountains, aroma of colors(flowers) and junipers, singing of birds, whiff of a wind, a sunset.. All this fills soul with something joyful and light, gives new forces, even tear navorachivajutsja on eyes. As it would not be desirable to come back. But in fact the more shortly an instant, the it(he) tsennee. Yes, I certainly shall return, but heart for the present remains here..