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Sunday, January 30, 2011

This is our way!

For them, the socks are covered with ice - a usual thing, a favorite landscape - frozen waterfall. They spend the night in tents, dreaming of a hot bath, and in the morning get up and open up new paths and mountain passes.

Who are these snow people, what motivates them and whether to take example from them? All the delights of winter adventure tourist club instructor told us Irbis Biysk Institute of Technology Alexander Terentyev.
It turns out to be a snow man can any mortal. After all, winter hikes - not the privilege of a few, but extreme, accessible to everyone. One has only to show the desire, courage and endurance. "For a simple winter hike fairly certain physical fitness and ability to ski. Many fear such trips, thinking that they are too cold, - says Alexander Terentyev. - It should not be afraid: in fact, in winter hikes is still warmer than in summer. The fact that the dry cold is much better tolerated than the cool moisture, which brings summer rains. Going to a winter hike, we have carefully prepared: in addition to ordinary tents take some special equipped stove. In addition, we are always in motion, and therefore from something which, while not suffering from the cold for sure! "
The instructor did not embellishes, saying that the winter visitors are in constant motion. Not had time to throw a backpack, how to prepare for the night. Then all the trip participants begin to work together to do this: who is going for firewood, who sets the tent. Often have a shovel and waving - even out a place under a tent or dig a hole under it, if you want to protect from the wind. There is not up to frost!
And if the street strong cold, the wood takes longer, and night duty (to the fire in the stove is not weakened) is transferred from one to another every hour.
- Alexander, why should prepare the uninitiated, ventured on a winter trip?
- To what socks, covered with ice - a standard situation. Need to immediately tune in to what will occur repeatedly complexities associated with a cold. For example, a few pleasant, when the morning has to squeeze his feet into frozen boots: the skin literally turns to stone, and laces - the wire. It has to warm up the legs, but get used to it and then treat normally. Some make the mistake: trying to warm up, moves closer to the fire, burns and shoes. And if before the end of a hike for another 10 days? There remains only the hope for a spare tire to help others. But I want to say at once: this is only possible for simple hikes. In sport, which is credited with the third degree of complexity and higher, are only experienced people who are thoroughly prepared for them.
For the average person the biggest problem is that constantly have to stay in the low-temperature conditions, ensure that there was no frostbite. In such a situation, the body spends more calories to warm themselves.
On a typical winter hike can go without an instructor. Main: pre necessarily hang out with experienced people, be prepared mentally to difficulties. You should know how to break a tent, as the stove to deliver, and do not let go of an idea: from settlements far to retreat is impossible. I recommend that beginners go, for example, to Karakol Lake. There all year round there are people who operate the base. You can climb the small height and enjoy the views of nature.
- You talk about the beauty of the landscape. In the summer you can admire the colorful panorama, vivid colors. What is so unusual you can see in winter?
- Everyone has their favorite time of year. In winter, nature has its own beauty - different, unusual! Have you ever seen the ice-covered waterfall? If not, be sure to take a look! Frozen water, iridescent in the sunlight like a rainbow - a delightful sight! But most of all I like the frosted trees, when the winter frost obdast branches, and they begin to sparkle like jewels.
- Hearsay, we know that, starting in the winter hiking, tourists and pampering bath can. Is this true?
- And it happens! One day we went to a 17-day tour, and there was no one cold night: always in the houses, and baths in a day! You can calculate everything beforehand, including the availability of seats for the night, and the number of bath houses along the route.
- And what happens if the 10 days there is no bath?
- (Laughing) Man dies an agonizing death. Chukchi not wash away. First, all the itching and then you get used to.
- What were the m
ost memorable trips?
- You know, every one of them - is unique. Each brings certain emotions and impressions. During one of these trips our club was awarded second place in the competition hikes Siberian region. Then the standard Route, we added a couple of climbs. Weather conditions were far from sugar: snow, blizzard. But the striking sensation - weight!
And once our guys got to pass an unknown (key in the regional heat of Khakassia), have risen to such a region, where there was no way to swap places with each other. It so happened that the first were a girl, and he himself had ropy way. After that, the pass was called girly.
Last year we went to the less-touristy area, the highest peak of the Altai Territory - peak Shangin. And we are paving the route without having the slightest information about the place you go. Just on the map it charted the ascent, which unfortunately could not commit due to bad weather. But we overcame two passes, which gave themselves the name: sacrotuberal and 29 February.
- Talking with you, you realize that in winter hikes expected continuous difficulties. What is the rush?
- And everyone has his own. Someone gets pleasure from the fact that a couple of weeks away from the bustle of the city. And someone kicks on the active leisure. Hunters adrenaline rise higher, with more snow, the conditions are more severe, and survival issues are more acute. But, I think everyone will find in winter hikes its chips!

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