Reports - Carpathians

Probably, most of us go to the mountains not only to enjoy the views, but also to feel the difficulties and experience some moments of discomfort in comparison with the measured city life, and from this get even more pleasure.

What gives us a hike in the mountains? First of all, visual pleasure, which grows into inspiration, the desire to live and create. But apart from this, a hike into the mountains teaches endurance, patience and humility, which I personally lacked lately.

After the campaign I know that I can do what seemed physically impossible. I know that I am hardy and patient when there are no other options. I know that there is no bad weather, there are wrongly selected clothes (c).

I had a feeling that someone big and wise draws a picture before you. Mountains and forests are canvas, the sun and clouds are paints, and the wind is a brush. And you — a small, nothing decisive spectator, you can only watch how everything changes every minute and infinitely admire the grandeur of what is happening.

Mountains, forests, rivers ... nothing can ruin a hike if you really like this holiday.

When people ask me what exactly I remember hiking in the Carpathian Mountains, according somehow just coming incredibly emotional gatherings around the campfire, clean air, delicious mushroom soup with spring water, flavored with wood gulls and black lips and teeth of blueberries, we mercilessly devoured during the journey.

We pass along the ridge past Nesamovity, several peaks (Turkul, Pozhizhevskaya, Breskul) along the traverse and, finally, we go out to the beautiful Goverla. She's really beautiful!

We got sick in August 2015. On our first trip with the route, we went to the Eastern Gorgan and realized that without this we can no longer.

If someone who is not too lazy to read this whole scribbling is interested in my opinion, then I will say that the Hoverla weekend tour is really a steep route for those people who go to the mountains for the first time. One-day route is small, in order to understand whether you like this kind of rest or not. For a greater number of days to go from the first time there is no sense...

Even though the night was the wettest, we did not put out the tents, not during the rain, as the next evening. And someone was lucky to sleep in two tents at the same time. Yes, for me it was the first time it was morning when you wake up, and all clothes are damp, and the only thing where it can dry is on you alone. Roma, as always in the morning, we were pleased with a delicious breakfast, some drying almost burned their shoes, I personally managed to burn the footbed of the boot. After a little drying, having rested and organized improvised raincoats for racks (brutally dividing the heavy find of Artem in the Sheshory valleys), we moved in green and moist forests to the CSS Zaroslyak. It seems that Roman said: "The forest is like the British."

The path wound among the springs and mosses, so we jumped from stone to stone. But here began the descent and landscapes began to change every minute while we moved. Just that there was nothing but a rare alpine pine, but now there were thickets of raspberries, tall grasses, and soon, we all descended into the forest. The path here is very hospitable and tourists can be met at every step. Again streams and spies.

The whole day was windy and sunny. The whole ridge is strewn with trenches from the First World War. It is not uncommon to find scraps of barbed wire of those times. So we went to the foot of the Brebeneskul mountain, where we dined in one of the trenches, hiding from the wind, and then climbed to the top.

Resting in the shade of the last trees and picking up water in the stream, we continued our journey to Ushasty Kamen. The path wound along a hillside overgrown with blueberries and raspberries, so that the jaws worked simultaneously with the legs, and even ahead of them. The ascent took place by small dashes along the path from the bush to the bush :) So little by little we reached the first stone block of the Earthen Stone.

After another couple of kilometers, a polonine with a Hutsul house of cheese-makers opened. It is exactly such Carpathians I imagined - coniferous forests, among which are meadows with cows. Just like from advertising to all famous chocolate. The water taken with itself, has long dried up, so that the spring had to run first. All the others pulled up, and we together, throwing backpacks, rushed to the dairy to buy a natural, and to see how they make their cheeses for centuries.

Eureka! Like 5 kilometers, and his legs are buzzing, his back is aching. We have to go to the shower ... Whatever soul, I thought to me, we are further away from civilization. There is an alternative - the waterfall, the jacuzzi is still there. I'll tell you honestly, with fatigue, I took off my hand. Then dinner, such a delicious dinner, I did not eat from the family :) and sleep ...

The trip was successful! The second time in the Carpathians in August and the second time I'm in awe. Svidovets pleased with its expanses, invigorating lakes, fragrant herbs, clean tasty waters, ripe berries, an abundance of white mushrooms, fresh winds and even rain.

In general, this trip was wonderful and unforgettable. I thought that the hike would be very difficult for me, but as it turned out everything was in moderation. Many thanks to Roma for this fascinating trip.

I will not even try to describe the beauty of the Carpathians - no words will suffice! These clouds, these rains, the mountain chain, spruce, waterfalls are more than you can accommodate, but it's all yours.

Will we still go on a camping trip with our beloved? Necessarily, only now for longer. Go and try. I think that you will be as enthusiastic as we are.

The warm rays of the sun weakened the connection of the branches with their thick white garments, and magnificent outfits sparked down to the foot of the beauties of the firs. A lot of animal tracks indicate a huge number of inhabitants. This time I could not pass by the top on the way to Kostrych and I was there, where tourists do not usually go up.

There is nowhere to hide, and even with a short stop, the wind penetrates through even through warm clothes. My super-gloves this time do not save. I'm trying to determine the direction with the help of the navigator, but it starts to slow down, probably because of the temperature, or what I downloaded heavier than necessary.

Towards a group of Estonian tourists, people are already at an age. They went light, apparently from the ecological base. I want to note that all whom I met in my campaigns, people are quite friendly. This will seem especially strange to those who came from big cities, where such a relationship is a deficit.

This was not our first trek in the Carpathians and not our first trip with the Route. And not the last! :) Mountains, woods, waterfalls, surrounding villages captured so much that it was simply not desirable to return to civilized Kiev. And to this day the body, like, is here - in the city, and the soul remained in the mountains ...

And in the morning we were waiting for incredible landscapes. The snow was over, and the entire surrounding area was flooded with a bright winter sun. For such moments people go to the mountains in winter, when you wake up early in the morning, you get out of the sleeping bag and just admire the beauty. Words difficult to convey the delight that embraces a person at such moments when everything else seems distant and insignificant. At such moments comes the realization of the enormous dimensions of this world, a small part of which is man.

Which I can draw conclusions - the campaign liked so much that it feels so far the best event of 2013 for me. Thank you guys for the company, and Sasha for planning the route and showed me really unforgettable winter mountains. This summer you will not see. With the "Route" this is my second campaign, but I'm just confident that it's not the last one.

The beauty of the morning mountains fascinated, and a double-tasting double portion of oatmeal with dried apricots, chocolate and apple gave strength to rise higher and contemplate the diversity and uniqueness of the Carpathians. Probably on this day I felt most of all a sense of freedom and tranquility. The problems that haunted me, leaving the city, have not gone away, but there was a knowledge of how to solve them and where to strive. It's like restarting the computer, after which everything falls into place. Merit for the most part of the guys who created such a nice and relaxed atmosphere, and of course the mountains and lack of mobile communication :)

Carpathians ... I fell in love with them quite recently, before that I perceived a photo from the Carpathians as a rural picture, and I was not too attracted to it. But being there for the first time, I felt a peculiar atmosphere in the Carpathians, which began to attract me. The beauty of the Carpathian mountains is simply fascinating. There are places that you can watch endlessly and enjoy them.

Long-awaited vacation. You do not always know how to hold it. You can go abroad: to Turkey, Egypt, etc., but for me such a holiday is rather boring. Seal rookery on the beach for 10 days, or even more time, bores almost all tourists. Of course, there are excursions, but this does not inspire much. You carry, drag, feed - "serve" in one word, and create a feeling of indifference, as if nothing depends on you.