Outdoor Equipment

The composition on a hike on Carpathians

  I took part(participated) in a hike on Carpathians "Gorgany" and have brought a great lot of new impressions from the travel.
From tops of mountains tremendous landscapes open: dark blue tops of far mountains on horizon, gray-green woody slopes of the nearest mountains with dark green spots(stains) of thrickets of a creeping pine and light grey impregnations of heaps of stones, valleys between mountains with a золотисто-green grass, and above all it(this) is the blue sky with ljapinami slepjashche white clouds is shrill.  

Changes in a route

You already read descriptions of our routes? I have tried to make their interesting, attractive and... Indistinct. The matter is that it is impossible to make a universal route for all occasions. Each time in current of a campaign it is necessary to make changes to a route repeatedly. As a matter of fact, the route is thought over anew.  

Verses on a hike

Has passed already a lot of time, but all in dogonku.
Wrote under big impression seen:
Water and stones, snow and rain,
And a wind strong impulses,  

Power there especial is

Response about a hike through cave cities of Crimea in May, 2007.
I already all in work, have flown by holiday imperceptibly. You have asked to tell opinion on a hike.
Route really very interesting, I love any such mysterious constructions of cave type, especially if it was constructed by people in a far antiquity. Power there even especial, apparently, that any spirits there live:)  

Rules of behaviour in a hike

Apartment - your house, you know as to behave here. You do not thrust fingers in the socket, do not litter under a sofa (I hope), do not rustle after 11 evenings. Mountains - unusual environment(Wednesday) for you. For this reason the conductor for this reason you should follow rules of behaviour in a hike is necessary to you.  

From Winter to Summer - the story about a tour < Above the sea > in May 2007.

the Problem(Task) on this hike sounded simply - to pass(take place) the Main ridge of Crimean mountains. To begin from Alushty with conquest Babugana and to finish in bay Laspi. Beginners in this hike were not - all participants were to some extent familiar with a camp life, and difficulties performance of a task in view to arise should not.  

How it happens?

Most of our customers have never hiked in mountains. They can hardly imagine what a trekking trip is and how it is organized.

In this article we will try to describe to you the whole process – starting from arrangements by e-mail and preparations for a trip and ending with saying goodbye after happy travels. We hope this essay will help you get prepared for the upcoming trip.

 

Light backpack

One of these days I have written article about a heavy backpack . Today to me it was thought, that it would be logical to write and about an easy(a light) backpack. I have sat down for the keyboard and …  

Tender May 2007

the Campaign to Crimea for May holidays for many is the traditional beginning of spring. From cold northern cities we come to Crimea to receive a few(a little;little bit) sun and spring flowering. So was and in it(this) to year. However weather has brought some corrective amendments in our plans. Tender May 2007 reminded late autumn, or even the beginning of winter more.  

Heavy backpack

Suddenly it wanted to share with you impressions of a campaign accompanied by really heavy backpack.
All begins that having laid a backpack, you raise it(him) a little (to estimate(appreciate) weight and balancing). Cтановится it is clear, that a today's cargo a lung you will not name. You of concept have no, how many there kgs, but hands authoritatively declare you, that too, it is too much  

System of discounts

The wholesale discount.

If you submit the collective application for a hike (2 persons and more) have is full right on the discount. Depending on the size of the order the discount will make from 5 up to 30 %

 

The literary discount.

If you will promise to write the story or a response about a hike, or any in another way show the literary abilities on pages of our site that receive the discount from 5 up to 15 dollars (depending on the size of product).  

Memoirs on a winter hike across Crimea

Yes, I sit, Russia means at itself in a hostel, in Dolgoprudnom. In the street - spring, at the left, behind a computer the neighbour is cut in Party Pocker, moving thousand virtual money. Midnight. Tomorrow early to rise. But pulls on a certain creativity, and in a hike it would be desirable. And time is not present, so though on-recollect a few.  

Ecologically pure(clean) washing in a hike

Usually in hikes nobody is engaged in washing. Simply take a stock of linen, and about cleanliness of other clothes temporarily forget. Too hlopotnoe business - washing in a hike. First water - that not always probably is necessary, and secondly the washed things should be dried somewhere. Also all here would seem to complexity... An is not present, it is necessary to think of ecological consequences of the washing still.  

Water on Gurzuf saddle

Plateau Babugan and nearby jajly are waterless enough. One of places where it is possible to expect to find water - pass Gurzufskoe a saddle. Water the truth not on the pass, and on descent(release) from it(him) aside in the seas. The first source can be found behind the first coil of a streamer in a ravine to the right of road to 100-150 meters from pass, is more exact from a green barrier on pass. The second source of water still below. Up to it(him) to go minutes 20 (about kilometer). A reference point - a glade with not clear construction (the destroyed small house of the forester). Beside tiny lake and the equipped spring (pipe).  

Carpathians on May holidays

Me often ask, why for May holidays I shall organize hikes across Crimea, instead of on Carpathians. The answer is simple - in Carpathians in the beginning of May too heavy weather conditions. Tops of Carpathians and ridges are covered by a snow. Avalanches are possible(probable). Below other misfortune - flooding and mud have sat down(lodge). Approaches are complicated. Numerous ferries and walking on the footpaths which have turned streams are inevitable. Wet legs(foots) garantirovanny. Weather unstable. The frost and a rain can replace without ceremony each other.  

Stacking of a backpack

about three Years ago I have adopted a fashion to spend stacking a backpack preliminary having thrust in the sleeping pad inside curtailed(turned) by a pipe. This way has advantages - the sleeping pad gives to a backpack additional rigidity, plays a role of a back, supports(maintains) the correct form of a backpack, protects things from a rain. However there are also lacks. The sleeping pad borrows(occupies) a lot of place. It(he) "eats" from 10 up to 20 litres of volume of a backpack (depending on a cut and a way of stacking).  

How to heat water from a snow

to heat water from a snow it is necessary very little: a snow, utensils, a source of fire and a free-of-charge labour. We fill utensils with a snow, we ram it(him) more densely. We put utensils on fire and... The Snow does not melt! He slowly mokreet, darkens, but to be smelted does not hasten(hurry) - too much air in a snow. What though somehow to help(assist) process, we ram a snow the spoon even more. The first moisture will be completely imbibed by a snow, but there will pass(will take place) a little more time and a kettle zapleshchetsja water. We have already made the most difficult. Now for us waits... The most tiresome.  

Russian special troops in Crimea

     Recently on the TV showed a serial about Russian special troops. The serial has not too impressed me, but familiar landscapes have liked. Central Asia and Afghanistan took out... Certainly in Crimea. Soldiers of Special troops ran for mojaheds on cave cities, a canyon of the river Kachi and other picturesque places of Crimea.  

College of mines

Once in an attack of wit I have called the hikes, a college of mines. Why also is not present? The institute is a higher educational institution. Our hikes too continuous training. We study to rearrange legs(foots), to wear backpacks and to be guided by districts, to love the nature and to help(assist) each other. All this occurs(happens) at solid height, hence our educational institution deserves an epithet "maximum(supreme)". Well and by itself we go on mountains, so our institute - mountain.  

Water on Chatyr Dag

Everyone know, that on CHatyr Dage it is a lot of caves, but everyone know that there not enough water. Certainly the tourists going to the Mottled cave, it excites a little - there there is a cafe. And here hikers tourists  should think where to find water on CHatyr Dag.