August 24, 2015
Kamchatka-2015 – aperitif.
“Further [vertically] up there, there’s a path!”
– Our guide, Fyodr.
Hi all!
Phew! Back to civilization from the harsh wilds of Kamchatka, and beginning the slow acclimatization back to modern city life and all its creature comforts.
In all we trekked 315km on foot, and probably traveled thousands of kilometers in all-terrain vehicles and caterpillar-track transporters, helicopters and snowmobiles (cars aren’t much use in Kamchatka:), and on the vertical axis we covered around 7000 meters on foot too.
We got up close to six or so volcanoes, sizzled in six hot springs, and saw untold numbers of bears!
Alas, the weather spoiled approximately a quarter of our route around the peninsula: we had to miss a couple of volcanoes (there was little point walking around in the dense cloud they were shrouded in), plus some of our intended on-foot route became part of the chopper route. Apart from that though, mercifully – for the there’s no climate in the world more unpredictable than Kamchatka’s – everything worked out superbly!
Stay tuned for the starter – Kamchatkan borsch, of course :)…
