Written by Êèðèëë ßñüêî
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12.04.2006 |
Carrying a light pack is easy. Carrying a lighter pack is harder. In Lightweight Backpacking 101 (reference at the end of the article), we extol the virtues of lightweight backpacking. More important, we offer practical advice for lightening your pack.
Written by Êèðèëë ßñüêî
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12.04.2006 |
Backpacking can be lots of fun,
When you are out in the sun.
Working hard and stomping your feet,
To every single little beat.
As the day grows longer, the weather gets hotter,
Just make sure you drink enough water.
Written by Êèðèëë ßñüêî
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12.04.2006 |
After dating for eight years, I finally married Lisa a few months ago. And everything has been perfect - I cook, she eats; she does laundry, I dirty clothes; she breaks things, I fix them; I love movies, she loves movies.
Yet, although we share a faultless domestic relationship, I find it funny how different we are in the woods.
Written by Êèðèëë ßñüêî
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12.04.2006 |
In the seventies, deciding what gear to buy was easy. Choices were limited and the tent we bought often served all our needs. Remember the venerable The North Face VE-24? It was the tent on everyone's wish list. It was big and heavy, but we didn't care. We used it for everything, from cold, windswept alpine environments to hot, dry desert climes.
Written by Êèðèëë ßñüêî
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12.04.2006 |
With so many people obsessed with weight loss these days, it's only fitting that manufacturers of outdoor equipment follow suit. But instead of cutting carbs, gear makers are ditching heavy fabrics and extraneous features for lightweight materials and efficient designs that offer exactly-and only-what outdoor enthusiasts need. Unlike the Atkins Diet, lightweight gear is here to stay.
Written by Êèðèëë ßñüêî
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12.04.2006 |
After a long day of hiking, it is always nice to sit and relax in camp. You get to look at the mountain tops, smell the forests and enjoy sunsets. There are no signs of civilization, until you find a cigarette butt lying on the ground! Yes, the mood has been shattered by finding trash on the ground, but there are steps to prevent this. It is a way of backpacking called no trace camping.
Written by Êèðèëë ßñüêî
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11.04.2006 |
The celebrated Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov lived in this house from 1906-1916 and again from 1918-1919. It was here that he wrote the novel The White Guard and the play Days of Turbins. The old Bulgakov family home is now home to the Bulgakov Museum, which displays the author's personal things and family photos. Open 10:00 - 17:00. Closed Wed.
Admission 2hr, English tours 15hr.
Written by Êèðèëë ßñüêî
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07.04.2006 |
What to see:
Khreschatyk The city’s grandest thoroughfare of slightly intimidating Stalinist architecture of uninterrupted facades reminding a stone carved canyon wall. Many of the original buildings in the city were destroyed in WWII and this street was rebuilt in characteristic soviet style. Khreschatyk is closed to automotive traffic on weekends.
Lenin monument Eighty years after his death, 87 since the Russian Revolution and 14 since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the declaration of Ukrainian independence, the city’s only remaining statue of Lenin still stands at one of the central squares, close to Khreschatyk. And believe it or not, it was named the world’s best monument at a 1939 international art exhibition in New York.
Written by Êèðèëë ßñüêî
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06.04.2006 |
Cape Martyan is a monument of nature, national preserve (1973). A preserve 'Cape Martyan' is in the direct vicinity from the famous parks of Nikita Botanical Gardens, scientific workers of which is holding scientific research. The scientists of the Gardens exposed more than 500 species of plants, including 14 endemic sorts. Here is preserved a plot of primordial juniper forest, individual old trees of which are 500-600 years old. And a population of strawberry tree microcarpous is one of the largest in the Crimea, it numbers about 3000 individuals of this relic species.
Written by Êèðèëë ßñüêî
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05.04.2006 |
it is pleasant to meet friends. It is twice pleasant to meet them them in mountains. And simply improbably it is pleasant to learn{find out} that to you with them on a way. I conducted in Gorgany group of Lithuania and on have met at station in Ivano-Frankovsk the Kiev friends. Further we have gone{send} together..