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Good morning or Unique Crimea

Response about a campaign "East express train" on September, 12-17th 2010г.

Later two weeks after I have come from a campaign, there was time to write about this unforgettable, fantastic, magnificent (much still it is possible to write beautiful words), and also a hard mountain-pedestrian campaign.

Long we waited with the girl-friend of this round, carefully approached to it (to a campaign understood that will be a little heavy) though went for the first time.

At last, that long-awaited morning when we have arrived on the Simferopol station where we were waited by instructor Anton has come. We with the girl-friend had control over on big (more precisely on huge) to a black package in hands which has been filled by clothes, a mug, a spoon, a plate, a minimum of tablets and sanitary articles, a sleeping bag, a rug, and also I in road have bought one lemon. We hardly lifted these packages, took all the most necessary and warm. Already during this moment asked itself a question: «And how I all it will incur on the shoulders throughout all campaign? Мммммдддааа … ….».  

Up-up-up!

the Response about a campaign «the Likijsky track. September 2010».
Has passed some days from the campaign termination across Turkey under mysterious and a much-promising title «the Likijsky track». Passions pouleglis, porridge in a head began to dissipate on grains and, if in the first day after arrival on 2nd question of friends (the first was: «You are live?» Or something something like that): «Well as?», - I lingeringly howled «VAUUUUUUU!», now I can more or answer this point in question less distinctly.  

In the world of adventures

     the Most important about a campaign on July, 18-23th 2010 "East Express train".
Know, since the childhood I love adventure novels. Reading products of such classics as to Zhjul Vern, Main Read, Fenimor Cooper and many other great writers you are dipped together with the protagonist into the magic world of travel in novel places. In due course you start to realise, as itself wish to be started up in wandering. And the finest what exactly you become the main character of your story.  

I have come for experience

     the Story about a campaign on "Wild Gorganam" on August, 1-8st 2010.
Everyone comes to a determination to go to a mountain campaign in own way. Someone searches romanticists, someone was called with themselves by friends, relatives have persuaded, and someone simply prefers productive leisure to a monotonous beach in an environment of animators and little tables with meal. My motive is much easier: I have come behind experience of foot campaigns on mountains, and also for acquaintance to area Gorgany which attracted me for a long time with the half-civilised atmosphere and majestic ridges, whence to the nearest settlements for 5-6 hours of the pedestrian to a course on not to the most convenient road. Thus, the tour choice «Wild Gorgany» has been predetermined.  

Lucky

Report hike on Montenegrin Ridge (route "Highest peak) Do you happen to have been in the Carpathian Mountains in the middle of August 2010? No, do not hit! Well, you lost a lot!

"Good luck, that's lucky, how did you podfartilo" - these and other similar meaning words I heard probably 60 times during the five-day trip (from 8 to 13 August). To express its joy at our good fortune hurry almost all encountered our guides, foresters and local residents only. I not only disagree with each of them, but I can safely say that was lucky, at least to me much more than they expect. But let us all about it ...

 

Hot it will not be

  I bring to attention of all the report on a campaign on the Montenegro ridge of Carpathians, organised by children from OutdoorUkraine in which I have taken part. The Trekking tour passed from July, 3 till July, 10th. For the most impatient I will write at first conclusions:
    * Carpathians it is beautiful
    * Carpathians (even in the summer) is not to you Crimea :) Weather can be awful, hot will not be exact and is necessary corresponding snarjaga from a rain and a wind
    * a Trekking tour not from the lungs taking into account numerous sets and dumps of height and weather conditions; beginners should think, whether to go for the first time at once there.

 

Dark blue mountains

the Response about a campaign «the Highest tops of Ukraine», 20 - on June, 25th, 2010.
Perhaps, I will begin from the very beginning - time dopohodnogo. This time includes also tourist meetings at school, and university runaways from pairs in the spring to Crimea, and constant presence of thought: «Instead of whether to go to us somewhere?». But, at any vital stage all it shrouds a life and monotony fog: the backpack appears presented to someone as superfluous, the tent has definitively dampened on a summer residence, friends prefer sea tour in five-stars hotels … And you in heart still has pressing melancholy behind clouds, a wind, a smoke of a fire and freedom …  

To be or not to try ... or not?

Trip "the highest peaks of Ukraine 4-9 July 2010. Ever wanted to spend your vacation special, not passively lying on the beach and sipping cocktails, and actively, with some taste of adrenalin. The main reason is just desire, namely the Carpathians, and not least, working in the office all day in front of a computer and a desire to simply active movement. Wanted - and did.  

Pilgrimage on holy sites

the Report on foot tour on cave cities, monasteries of Crimea 6 - on June, 11th 2010.
In general, we have decided to go somehow to a campaign (I and my husband Eugene). I.e. I have solved, and the husband has made over itself heroic effort and with words: «Well it is fine, well», - has started to prepare, so to say morally.

It is necessary to give to it due, it the person thorough, therefore though it was our first campaign, clothes, the equipment, all it was as much as possible easy and practical. Thanks big, favourite! And also many thanks, to Cyril, for well stated and clear councils for beginners (anything superfluous did not take).

Now about a campaign. Prepared for the worst. Eugene - because it the person not sports. And I - because was going to drag in advance 15 kg uphill and to listen to compliments in the address apropos «well why to you is not sat at home?!». Has managed :)  

When it is not enough words

The photoreport (slide show) on a hiking tour "On Cave cities of Crimea" on October, 4-9th, 2009.
Yes-yes, in October we too go to campaigns. I publish this report at the height of summer when across Crimea in search of a bar with the big TV (there is a World championship) crowds having a rest wander, exhausted with a heat and salivation (an ubiquitous smell of shish kebabs will wake appetite even at dead). That it was more amusing to me to look at photos where people in trousers and jackets go on bright red wood. The autumn seems far and unreal. Well, September still can to try be imagined, but October...
 

Have not missed chance

Where there has gone "Orient Express" on June, 20th 2010?
Rest is always spent actively, not the first year is stared at mountains, caves, the falls, the destroyed walls and others vkusnosti and interesnosti Crimea. Set of times left in radialki (with mountain guides or) did not miss chance to go on fascinating excursions. It is possible to tell that to the first campaign lasting many days have come an evolutionary way. This campaign across east Crimea will be remembered for ever - unforgettable sensations from the process and interesting trifles continually!
 

It was not sat at home

About that as I went for kudykiny mountains or Demerdzhi round on May, 8-10th, 2010
Why I have gone to mountains? Goodness knows))) it was not sat at home. Having seen at station the group and Sashu (our conductor) one thought - stremnoe this business and a backpack and a campaign and in general … was at the tip of the tongue only But all has appeared not so is sad as it was supposed ;)
Having reached by a trolley bus to Angarsk pass, we bodrjachkom have walked at once in mountains. Wood has unexpectedly surprised with greens and variety of colours. For some reason still it was expected to see grey trees and … grey trees - as only the beginning of May and so on, but is not present - the greens were around dismissed and pleased in the spring
 

Six bicyclists and one sun

the Report on a cycling trip across East Crimea on June, 13-17th, 2010 (a route "Cycling-satori")
We go practically "on an azimuth", constant lifting. Ahead - only hills Scythian barrows with vygryzennymi "black archeologists" the middle. Behind barrows lifting comes to an end. With each metre of a way because of horizon start to come up tops jajl, and road - as if to pull forward the promise something unusual. South country Ak-Kai it is valid a fairy tale! Sensation that you stand on border of the forgotten world. Behind the back - steppe and silence of ancient barrows, and below - small houses, peach gardens, a web of roads and a twisting channel of Bijuk-Karasu. From an euphoria condition can deduce only necessity to move further - through the Failure (descent not so is combined as the White rock and already asphalt on Belogorsk can seem) in village.
 

Trekking round beauty Demerdzhi

a Trekking tour on a route "Round Demerdzhi" for the Constitution day of Ukraine (June 2010).
Trekking tour - a rare place where it is possible to feel the person ©
I will tell at once, do not go to campaigns because it tightens. It as "drug" :) Having tried time then you can not will stop. I would like to get to Crimea in the summer and to see the wild nature in the distance from a civilisation and many-storeyed panel houses. I long could not will dare, will ask for leave from work, to get tickets etc. But have dared and there is nothing I am not sorry.
 

Improbable adventure of our family

About a family campaign on "to Water and Stones" 6/6/2010
So, has passed(taken place) only two weeks as the improbable adventure of our family under the name «WATER and STONES» has ended. And we still do not stop till now to consider(examine) the photos brought of a campaign, and also a photo of our friends which they send by e-mail. And at night in the sleep still we go on mountains, we go down in caves, we sit near a fire.

And all has begun long before the beginning of summer …  

It was cool!

Faunologichesky shock and other delights of a campaign across Turkey on May, 16-28th 2010.
Well, I will be the first. At once the Internet is remembered: "the first on.", well you have understood.
Usually if there are no reports or all is very bad, or, on the contrary all is too good. Simply in the first case it would not be desirable to write a negative, and in the second case the lexicon for expression of the delight can not suffice.
For those who likes to read books at once from the end I will tell: it was cool! Even with the account of that that in Turkey there was already a third time and ability to be surprised certainly already has become dull.  

Trekking - not walk on park

     the Seaman of merchant marine fleet about "Water and stones" in June 2010.
I always considered that rest should be active. Especially rest of the seaman which has got used to spend the majority of time on a vessel in vigorous movements. And my especially personal opinion that boarding houses, conditioners, beaches with uncountable quantity of the people, a food in dining rooms, beer and the other blessings of a civilisation is all lightly. Not rest, and waste of money, forces and health. By the nature it is necessary for person to overcome and struggle with difficulties to feel a live substance. And the campaign across mountain Crimea as well as possible combines productive leisure and possibility to test the forces.  

Video from cycling trip in Crimea

  the Video report on a cycling trip across Crimea (a route "Conducted-satori") in June 2010.
In this cycling trip I constantly held the chamber near at hand (has fixed a wardrobe trunk on a wheel). But as practice, it has shown absolutely insufficiently. It is necessary to fix the chamber to a helmet and to remove in movement. Otherwise it is difficult "to catch in an objective" dynamics of a cycling trip, its mad pulse. Unfortunately such technics at me while is not present, therefore it was necessary to remove "from the earth" (instead of "from wheels"), thereby dooming itself to constant backlog from group. On a maximum used halts and technical stops, removing all successively - group braking, a halt and repeated dispersal.

Result of all this rough activity 3Gb a video data which I with success (as it seemed to me) have overworked 3 minutes of video. Look!  

The first turkish trekking

Impressions about a hike(trekking tour) across Turkey " the Lycian way " on May, 18-28th 2010.
Usually about the impressions after a hike(trekking tour) tourists (instead of the instructor) write, but in this case I have decided to break(disturb) tradition and to insert the five copecks into a laudatory ode to the ground turkish and to domestic tourists. Very much an important point - not simply the first turkish, and the first foreign hike(trekking tour) in general.  

Scarlet noses and calloused heels

the Response about trekking tour " Scarlet sails " on May, 2-7nd 2010.

From the Moscow ring highway up to Klementyev's mountain - 1501 km and 22 hours of driving. From Klementyev's mountain up to Koktebel - at all 15 minutes on a straight line, and six days of a way on a cross-country terrain. Time and space are relative - is proved by " Scarlet sails ».

The desire to descend(go) in a hike(trekking tour) across East Crimea was issued, as soon as it became known, that across East Crimea hikes(trekking tours) in general are possible(probable). Not радиалки-somethings ephemeral, and high-grade hikes(trekking tours), days on five-six and more than on 70 km of a way.