Outdoor Equipment

Survival hike

Cold, rainy and foggy сСјСУсЄї-round on May, 1-3st, 2009.

Having planned this action in February, I some times represented, as it will be, my first hike and a life in tents. I saw myself nalegke, in cheerful Panama and the sandals, cheerfully skipping on lawns, photographing bright flowers, poppies, for example. And around of me butterflies, bugs, in general a life at full speed fly...  

Descents and Rises

Memoirs on summer and a hike " Water and Stones " on July, 11-18th, 2008.
  It was necessary to name this hike «Descents and Rises», - this phrase very correctly displays marching mood. If in the morning we go down, we rise or on the contrary and so every day So :) do not think in the evening, that will be easy... But it will be beautiful precisely!  

Recommended by Lonely Planet

In June, 2008 was published a second edition of guidebook Lonely Planet devoted to Ukraine. To great our pleasure, in this release our project OutdoorUkraine.com is mentioned.

LP recommends the readers our services on the organization of mountain hiking tours and quotes OutdoorUkraine, telling about the Crimean reserves.

 

Backpackers are engaged with backpacking?

Backpackers - the amateur tourists who are not buying rounds, and the investigating(researching) distant countries without the help of the tour agencies, independently planning the travel. They carry the things in backpacks, unlike the "civilized" tourists, using suitcases and porters.  

As I became true tourist

The story about a hike « Above the sea » on October, 5-9th, 2008.
Route: Simferopol - Babugan - Roman Kosh - Yalta jajla -  Mangup - Eski-kermen - Sebastopol.
This story - attempt to explain to itself as the normal fan of normal rest for six days of a hike becomes the mad adventurer.  

Beginners hike

the Response about a winter hike across Crimea " the Most northern Demerdzhi " on January, 3-5rd 2009.
In hikes I the beginner, especially in winter. Anywhere was not, and here has suddenly lighted up. Certainly, all dissuaded: « Where you - on true death, try(taste) all over again in the summer, to live in the winter in tent, horror! » Mum saw me by all means at the bottom of gorge with the broken head and other troubles. All this fine amused me.  

Feed in a winter hike

Much of that I here shall tell, well-known. For example " in the winter coldly ". Or " water freezes ". It is not so important in city, but essential, when spend on a frost many days successively. The cold compels(forces) to eat in another way and to use other products (in comparison with a summer).  

Almost Caucasus

the Report on a hike in Carpathians in the end of October, 2008. Usual August day. We cost(stand) at the Simferopol station, we meet new group … Suddenly Cyril suggests to go in October to Carpathians. In Carpathians I before was not, besides that serene summer day I still and did not suspect that in October happens coldly.  

Rains above the Sea

the Story about a hike « Above the sea » on October, 5-9th, 2008.
Very strong lateral wind with a rain forced down from a track. Present, what force the wind if the general(common) my alive weight with boots and a backpack, more than 100 kg, forced down from a track and was necessary to expose improvised trekingovuju a stick and to come back to a track!  

Winter backpacking - Our way

Our sight at the organization of winter hikes. As we go, as we put on, as we arrange camp as we have a rest. Attempt to give(allow) a complete picture of a winter hike, morally to prepare you for the future tests, to give a push to more realized choice of equipment and clothes.  

As in the summer!

the Response about round " the Forgotten world " on November, 2-4nd 2008

Morning.. Who that sleeps, and who that has already dissolved a fire and was expiated. For fans(amateurs) to have a sleep I shall inform, that there was no rise in 7 mornings and 30 minutes on gathering - slept(burn) long. Though what dream, when around such beauty! The sun has left because of mountain and became warm, even zharko, and in Moscow the snow (the friend has sent SMS) has gone. We are pleased, bathe, we eat, we collect tents and sleeping bags and again in a way!  

Hike to woods and falls of Carpathia

Response about a hike on Carpathians in August 2008. I welcome those who reads this response :). Has decided to write it(him) at once as has arrived, for the present in a head impressions from gone through are fresh. Well I can tell... All was simple super! I have just gone to such time when all news blew alarm, that type here there rains, landslips and to that the similar chicken-feed, voobshchem at once after in Ivano-Frankovsk happens disaster. With me my friend still(even) was going to go, but having heard everything, that transferred on news has refused, and I have thought: «Eh..», and has gone...  

What can attract in a hike?

Reflections caused by round " East eksperss " on August, 3-8rd 2008.
What can attract in a hike? Such question is set by many people whom it is absolutely not clear as it is possible to go with pleasure all the day on foot with a backpack, to not wash every day under a shower, to cook I food on a fire and tea with water from a pool. But as it is pleasant after heavy monotonous rise to leave on top and to feel on the person(face) whiff of an easy(a light) breeze. As at once it becomes easy(light)! And, apparently, that it is possible to pass(take place) tens more kilometers not stopping for a halt. Or when dirty and tired you will get out of a cave and you will throw on nedoedennuju the others to bank with paste. What this happiness! And as it is pleasant after the whole day of a way on waterless steppe at last to drop to a source even if it is almost dried up well.  

Native open spaces

the truth about a hike on August, 24th 2008г.

Fast train « Moscow - Sevastopol », 7 o'clock in the morning. The hot Crimean air filled by a smell of a juniper and burnt sun of a grass, reaches me through the open window. And behind a window of darlings to heart in a Crimean way long a poplar! Hi, my favourite Crimea! From comprehension of forthcoming travel there is a pleasant excitement! To not tell, that I went to a hike behind new sensations. In a hike I am already far not for the first time and consequently all in Crimea for me became native

 

Figures on stones

the Report on a hike across mountain Crimea from June, 29th till July, 4th 2008. Simferopol has met us gloomy dozhdichkom. A meeting, acquaintance, distribution of products on backpacks. In our group 9 person, not including conductor Tarasa: three family pairs, mum with the son-teenager and Andrey Bolshoj. In parallel with us on the same route two more groups, with conductors Anna and Andrey sent.

In hammered by people and backpacks a trolley bus « Simferopol - Alushta » have reached up to picturesque Perevalnogo. Taras has told: - Ishachka unpleasant, but it(she) should be passed(taken place), it will be then easier. And here we go...  

Extreme amount of unforgettable emotions

Impressions about round " Water and Stones " started on August, 31st 2008г.
It would be desirable to express huge gratitude for a hike. Has received extreme quantity(amount) of unforgettable emotions:) Andrey (guide) - disappears under thick glasses(spots) (though without them to it(him) much better), a modest smile and is simple ofigennym appetite:) Thanks it(him) separate for pleasant night conversations. For the reason, that it(he) spent the night with us in tent we have felt its(his) all charm pribyvanija in mountains in current of 4 months and its(his) special tactics of deleting of socks.  

Rain every day

Here has passed(has taken place) almost month as I have returned from Crimea where Water and Stones " has visited 6 day time hike under the name ". Considering(examining) in 10-тый time of a photo and recollecting a hike it was thought and why to not write about it(him).

So, a little bit I shall stop on how I have got in this hike. Somehow, in nothing the remarkable June working day, during a dinner razgovorilis with the colleague on a theme of holiday from which I have learned(have found out), that the colleague gathers in August in 6 dnevnyj a hike across mountain Crimea, that the pier has found a suitable site here chooses in what hike to go.  

Taras and We

the Response about round " Water and Stones " on July, 27th - on August, 1st 2008
« We creep … », « Have come crawling. Are meanwhile alive », « Today ate a porridge with mushrooms », « And at night to us read Alisu in the World behind the looking-glass », « Has forgotten things in an another's backpack … » - is not present, it I have not gone mad in mountains, it really response about a hike, in the form of mine SMS on "continent". And in fact so all both was - and crept, and mushrooms (normal mushrooms:), and magic Carroll's reading for the night.  

Fairy tale on many Stones and far Water

There was it when the night sun day time has covered, in a month when sweet mountain grapes to keep up begins. The restless tribe has gathered and became dopytyvat the Leader, whether probably from dusty city up to the sea to reach. Mighty soldiers have risen, have shipped women tsvetastye skirts in zaplechnye bags and have gone(send) on chatyr-сбъ, that also the Tent-mountain is called.  

Recollecting a youth

About a hike from July, 31st till August, 1st 2008г.

Mountains... Crimea... Attempts to recollect when I was last time in Crimea in what do not result(bring). Memory gives out result - more than 20 years and further to work refuses. Only vague memoirs on school days when our teacher of physics, the inveterate tourist, drove us in hikes across Crimea and Caucasus each vacation. Since then a lot of water has flowed away...