Outdoor Equipment

About Crimea winter hiking tour - January 2007

This campaign though it was planned already for a long time, has occured absolutely casually. Gathering have borrowed only 2 days, and it at that that on a nose was New year and other cares too sufficed. Initially planned route: the Small Beacon - Paragilmen - Babugan - Yalta Yayl - Ai Petri. Really we went so...  

Monastic chronicles-2

If it is interesting, why at once " Monastic chronicles-2 " - the first series were written not by me, to read through it it is possible here. Again August, again the Simferopol station, again a backpack with attached pad and tent … But this time a backpack essentially is easier, in a lap - dragging away stockings, and with itself, except for the usual marching complete set, are taken telescopic mountain a stick. As has shown time - the extremely useful thing in any campaign.  

Crimea tour

Crimea peninsula is very attractive place. A lot of travel agencies have tours to Crimea. But how to choose?  

Adventure trekking

Adventure trekking - it's my business. A whole year i guide tourists in Ukrainian mountains. And i like it, because it's really nice way to connect hobby with work.  

The Composition a hike

You search for the composition on a hike? Look in my collection of reports, can you will find something suitable. You will a little correct and will turn out the excellent(different) composition about a hike. I think authors will not be against :) And in general, it seems to me that to write such composition simply and most. Certainly if you really were in a hike. Same such heap of impressions and events. To tell about a hike - continuous pleasure. The main thing - forget about the teacher. Present is better, that you tell to the best friend, enticing it(him) to go with you to a following hike.  

Have Your Cake (and carry it too)

There seems to be a proliferation of advice on how to shave ounces off your pack weight. While everyone would like a lighter load, most of us also want to have along the things we need for a safe and enjoyable time in the backcountry. Let�s face it, in summer you can spend a night in the woods with almost nothing at all, but you�d be pretty miserable.

So what luxuries can you bring along? Just how much difference will a few ounces, or even a few pounds, actually make? Well, it could mean the difference between winning or losing a race. But you're not in a race. You've left the rat race behind. You're getting back to basics. Simplifying. Enjoying your natural surroundings intimately. You're on vacation. You're backpacking!

 

Packing a Pack

By far the most often asked question I get is "How should I pack my backpack". Since I have already answered this question many times for individuals, I thought I would just write it all down and so everyone could hear about it.  

Tourist services

What tourist services you interest? We offer the organization of productive leisure(active rest), and simply speaking mountain hikes.
In what our services actually consist? - we develop a route, we provide a delivery, vsjacheki we help(assist) you with a hike. As a result ours " tourist services " are accessible even to beginners in tourism.  

Looking Out For Number One

As a lurker on a number of internet bulletin boards related to outdoor recreation, I have learned that many who participate in backpacking are uncomfortable with the idea of going alone. The topic crops up regularly in message threads, and lots of good advice is often generated. Solo backpacking should not be placed in the same category of "extreme sports" as, say, skydiving. There are some increased risks that come with self-reliance, but none that should intimidate any backpacker with a little experience and a sufficient amount of common sense.  

Tourist knifes

It is considered, that tourist knifes is the important attribute of tourist equipment. There is a whole industry on manufacture of marching knifes, knifes of a survival, etc.
Quite often the addicting for knifes smells slightly of a fetishism. Tourists buy terrible instruments of tortures, cling on a girdle and try to convince colleagues, what is it - a necessary thing of a hike.  

Stories of tourists

Each person (it too concerns to tourists) - is unique and unique. Therefore the same events are perceived by us variously. Especially it is appreciable in mountain hikes. People, getting in unusual to themselves a condition, show the whole spectrum of bright and fresh tints of perception.  

Search and Rescue!

8:00am. Our second day out, after a night at the barn. In front of us lay a hefty challenge, which was climbing the south face of Big Hump. Knowing we had a long day in store for us, I was up early, and on the trail, beating everyone else out by an hour. The sun was just beginning to peek out over the eastern horizon, split by a natural elevation fade in topography to my right.  

Student's hike

the Student's hike - a piece especial. It can be noisy party which goes a little and sits at a fire much. Or the company it is sports nastroenyh the enthusiasts who are passing(are taking place) on 30 kilometers a day with it is impossible serious backpacks. In any event a student's hike it is cheerful. And I so like this fun, that to involve students in the hikes, I offer them good discounts. That only you will not make for the sake of a student's hike :)  

Trekking tour 2012

Are you looking for mountain guide to make a Trekking tour in 2012? So you can do it with me . I'm mountain guide from Ukraine (Eastern Europe), organize hiking tours in Carpathian and Crimea mountains since 2002. In 2012 our regular tours will start every Sunday. Join us!  

Hiking with miracles

Here already has passed two months after a hiking tour, and I till now recollect and I share impressions with the friends and fellow workers. Yes such to forget it is impossible - air, the sun and water were true fellow travellers in a way, well and, certainly, new friends, that for me is not unimportant! I went one to a tour, but have been assured, the company will be lux, and has not lost!!!  

Response about a tour 6-12th August, "Ghosts Valley"

Greetings Cyril! As well as promised I write a response about a campaign August, 6-12th "Ghosts Valley". All huge greetings from three northern girls from far Peter. At us now rains, and only the Crimean memoirs on a campaign warm already almost freezed ours сердечки. Certainly, many thanks to Cyril which for six days has opened for us Crimea on the other hand would be desirable to tell. THANKS! We have seen not only all beauty of mountains, but also have communicated to children from different cities.  

How to prevent Tick-borne diseases

Prevention of all tick-borne diseases can be divided into several strategies. These are environmental, personal, and prophylactic (after a tick bite has occurred). * Environmental strategies (control of the population of deer and other vectors and tick control measures) are beyond the scope of this section. * Personal strategies include avoiding grassy areas with shrubs that attract ticks, wearing white or light-colored clothing so that attached ticks can be seen easily and removed, tucking pant legs into socks, walking in the center of paths to avoid vegetation on which ticks lie in wait of a host, applying lotion containing diethyltoluamide to the skin (avoiding face and hands), applying permethrin to clothing, and performing daily tick checks and removing ticks as soon as they are detected.  

Tick-borne disease

Tick-borne diseases are diseases or illnesses transmitted by ticks. As the incidence of tick-borne illnesses increases and the geographic areas in which they are found expand, it becomes increasingly important that health professionals be able to distinguish the diverse, and often overlapping, clinical presentations of these diseases. Tick-borne illnesses are caused by infection with a variety of pathogens, including rickettsia and other types of bacteria, viruses, and protozoa. Because ticks can harbor more than one disease-causing agent, patients can be infected with more than one pathogen at the same time, compounding the difficulty in diagnosis and treatment.  

Tick

Tick is the common name for the small arachnids that, along with mites, constitute the order Acarina. Ticks are ectoparasites (external parasites), living by hematophagy on the blood of mammals, birds, and occasionally reptiles and amphibians. Ticks are important vectors of a number of diseases.  

How to remove the tick

Tick's mouthparts have reverse harpoon-like barbs, designed to penetrate and attach to skin. Ticks secrete a cement-like substance that helps them adhere firmly to the host. If you find that you or your pet has been bitten by a tick, it is important to remove it properly.