I'm going on a categorical trip. Non-categorical trips. Weekend hikes

Supervisor: A.Gorchakov, Moscow

Report on a mountain hike 3 k.s. Turkey in May 2008 Part 1

Tourist Sports Union of Russia

Moscow Tourist Club "Vestra"

REPORT

about mountain hiking

in the region of the Aladaglal

(Taurus, Türkiye),

committed by a group of tourists TC "Vestra"

Team leader: Gorchakov Alexander Valerievich

Issuing organization: Moscow mountain club Vestra www.westra.ru

Route book 27/3-301

Cartographic support. Vector map drawn and kindly provided by Sergey Gladilin and Alexander Purikov.

Options for entry and exit are well and fully reflected in the report of Anya Pomazova. ()

The area is surrounded on all sides by a well-developed civilization and transport links. Inside there are also many roads. And only on the snowy passes there are no traces of civilization. But there are fewer of them. Therefore, from any point of the route to go "to the people" within one day is not difficult.

The original "overplan" to go through the last canyon of 77 fords remained unfulfilled, due to bad weather conditions - two days of imprisonment - on the route. We took advantage of the shortened exit - to the village of Elatan.

Walking time 2:10 h.

Mileage 11 km.

Elevation difference + 350 m

At 17:00 we land in front of the waterfalls below the village of Kapuzbashi. The jets break out of the rock mass of the upper part of the rocky bastion and rush down in wide streams of varying degrees of dispersion, a very impressive flow rate. The water suspension meeting the paws of the sun gives rise to many rainbows!

Having examined this “miracle” from different angles, we finally remember the route and at 18:00 we set off up the road.

After 20 minutes of walking we pass the village of Kapuzbashi and already with a crowd of annoying children we go higher. It was possible to fight off the "tail" only after 3-4 km.

It's getting dark.. At the next sharp turn of the road we meet a drinking bowl. (1:10 h above the falls) and it would be highly logical to camp here. But the place is open and, as it seemed to me, not cozy enough. We decide a little more .. As it turned out, this dark transition would be completely unprincipled and erroneous, if not a meeting (the only one on the entire route of the campaign in general) with a land crab! ..

After walking for an hour, we reach the village of Barazama. It faded to obscurity. The muezzin answered the call for evening prayer. And our group decided not to risk meeting with the unknown customs of the locals, but to settle down for the night right here, on a small piece of lawn free from vegetable gardens on the river bank.

Walking time – 7:20 a.m. (of which canyon: 4:30 hrs)

Kilometer - 16.5 km.

Height difference+ 550 m.

Morning met with warm Turkish sun, clean mountain air and .. surprised owners of vegetable gardens! Here we should pay tribute to the highest correctness of the locals, who promptly succeeded so as not to embarrass wandering travelers ..

10:00. Products are distributed, friends are fed. Let's hit the road!

The village of Barazama, like all other villages we met in the Aladaglara region, has a very neat appearance: the streets are paved with paving stones, there is no garbage either at the entrance or at the exit or inside .. The village has already woken up and on the central street, where we -a cultural goal, how many children frolic in search of the shortest path. Houses with a stone base and a wooden top, rather frail in appearance (because the wooden part is more like plywood) in places clay outbuildings, each with a satellite dish, pets are everywhere. A little further from the center, on a slope, there is a minaret, giving out the presence of a mosque. Surprisingly, they managed to slip through almost unnoticed!

Immediately behind the village, neat patches of juicy green grass begin. A group of pretty Turkish women with children and goats are already returning from the fields .. And along the riverbed, along the very edge of the purest azure stream - white birches are so close and pleasant to the eye. Mountain-rural idyll in Turkish!

400 meters from the village there is a spring-source. But camping here is not very convenient - quite open. (however, as an option..!)

Pretty soon, the road crosses to the left bank of the river and, climbing a little higher, bending around numerous bends (from washouts and ravines) of the slope comfortably takes us further and further ..

Meanwhile, already 45 minutes from Barazama, a trail begins to climb onto the right side of the valley, which, judging by the map, is the way around the canyon. There are quite decent sites for camping by the river.

The slopes are steeper, the valley narrows and its bottom is overgrown with dense beautiful birch forest with an admixture of something local. And above, at the level of the road - fluffy Turkish and our close pines. Soil unusually scarlet (dark red, ed.) shade.

But here, on the left side of the road, we notice our landmark - a humpbacked stone bridge that is thrown over the right tributary of our river ... The purpose of the bridge, it seems, is to connect the little cat with the road. But the tributary .. It breaks out of the canyon! And we go there.

(from Barazama village to the entrance to the canyon 2:20 min.)

They decided not to cross the bridge, but to start climbing along the left side of the tributary. Which immediately made me change trekking shoes to its fermentation version. Small clamp. Right bank trail. A steep set of loose roads, a bender, and you can no longer see the way back out of the canyon: only high walls and a path winding between branched trees. (30 min from the entrance to the canyon)

7 fords. For the most part we go along the left bank along the path. We meet locals: both sides are incredibly surprised (we did not expect to meet people, they did not expect to meet such people J).

Brody.., detours... Water up to the knees., oh! already hip. In some places the walls are so steep and the gaps between them are tight that you have to walk along the channel, struggling with the flow. Sometimes snow plugs completely block a narrow corridor and require the use of special equipment with an ice ax so as not to slip into the stream. (spent 2:10 hours)

Having lost count of the fords, we find ourselves on the left bank, at the beginning of the decisive exit of a steep ascent. A barely noticeable trail begins to climb and .. is lost. But from here and above, it also goes to the serpentine, already its right-bank part. At first, the ford looks unrealistic .., but intelligence showed the groundlessness of fears. Gymnastically insuring each other, we force a swift stream. Less than 70 m of climb and you can breathe a sigh of relief: further dry!, further open and nice to the eye space, although not very wide, but already a valley! The first for the last 5:30 hours (general, “dirty”, time in the Canyon) and the last minutes of the gentle sun for this day .. (19:43 astronomical local time).

Here, between two small streams - kosh. After a little thought and finding the kosh empty (probably, the owners came across us in the canyon), we are located behind a small hill, on the banks of the Aksu River, opposite another building. No sooner had dinner been prepared than it was completely dark. The occupants of the buildings never showed up.

Many have heard that there are such things as "Inquiries for a trip." They were born back in the USSR, as an integral part of the sport "Sports tourism". Whether it’s a sport or not (I personally think it’s not, because I don’t see people competing with someone in this activity) within the framework of this article is not important. The fact that your hike has become "sporty" does not mean at all that you should now run under a backpack with a stopwatch. This is just a campaign organized and carried out according to certain rules. Such certificates are issued by the public organization Federation of Sports Tourism of Russia (FSTR) through the Route Qualification Commissions authorized by it (hereinafter referred to as the "MCC") (note for yourself Russian Federation does not participate in this in any way - this is for those who love the phrases “officially released on the route”, “official certificates”, etc.). Despite long names, there is nothing terrible.

Why references are needed

A travel certificate is a document about your travel experience. What is important, it was issued by an independent party, by people who looked at the hike where you were, with an open mind and evaluated it according to some kind of unified system that allows you to compare the difficulty of your hike with others. I organize many trips, and perhaps the most important question I ask a stranger who wants to go with me under the backpack is: “What is your hiking experience?”. As a rule, you have to talk with a person for a long time in order to understand what exactly he managed to get through. Different people evaluate and describe their experiences in different ways. For some, one-day trekking in Krasnaya Polyana is already a mega-super adventure, and a 3-day hike in the Crimea is a mountain hike, and someone describes their hike as follows: “there were cute goats and such beautiful valleys, I walked and rejoiced,” although in fact, they had very vigorous passes there. And if a person simply says: “I have a certificate for walking one,” then this greatly simplifies the conversation. I will already understand what a person has experienced, and this experience of his is not invented and is not the fruit of his subjective assessment of himself.

There may be such a situation that the leader of the campaign knows you well, walked a lot with you, or you were able to convince him of your experience. But the leader is going to lead a hike from the 2nd category and above, wants to register it with the ICC (in order to get certificates for it), but according to the rules, you can go there when the participants already have a certificate (“ formal experience"what it's called) for the hiking category below. And you don't have it. Convincing members of the ICC that you have experience without a certificate is almost impossible. They will not, as a leader, go to training with you and drink beer, they will simply look at the documents.

You may also want to apply for a sports category in Sports Tourism. It's useless on its own, but it's fun. For this, references from your previous trips will also come in handy.

Referral procedure

In general, the algorithm is as follows:

Are you planning a hike?

Planning normally. In addition to reasonable criteria, if you want your trip to be considered categorical, you need to plan it so that it meets certain requirements of the FSTR in your type of tourism (a certain set of kilometers of path and various obstacles). IN sports tourism there are already 10 of these types of tourism (Attention: there is no classification criterion and division logic, accept it):

• on foot (everywhere where you can go on foot);
• skiing (no one has heard of snowshoes, and no one knows where to take them);
• mountainous (only if your hike is in the Caucasus, Altai or Fanakh-Pamir. The Khibiny, the Klyuchevskaya group of volcanoes in Kamchatka, the Urals, the Andes and the Cordillera are not mountains :) There you will have a hiking route);
• water;
• bicycle;
• auto-moto;
• equestrian;
• sailing (but not on yachts! If you are going on a ship that your crew cannot carry, then .. you are apparently not a sports tourist :) So, hell, register your crossing of the Atlantic);
• speleo (how did it get here?!);
• combined.

Specific requirements for each type of tourism can be easily found on the Internet.

Since you are reading this article, you are most likely going on your first categorical hike, the easiest one is the first category hike.If you have a mountain route, for example, then you need to pave a path of 100 km through at least two 1A passes, if there are fewer, then this is a non-categorical route, if there is at least one 1B pass, then this is already a “route of the first category with elements of the second” - most likely the IWC will not release a group of beginners on such a route.

Fill out the itinerary

Here is a link to a printable file, which is also a sample fill. (You print sheets 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6 with double-sided printing, and 7 separately is the cover. As a result, you should get an A5 booklet, fasten it with a stapler. You can not squeeze the map / trip plan in step 4 in half A4 sheet, and printing a normal map and putting it in a book will make everyone happy.) All the information that needs to be entered in the route book, you should already have if you prepared the trip normally. Personally, I just copy the data from my convenient Google tables into this strange print form. And I overlay the tracks of different path options on one map using nakarte.me and print them. In paragraph 2, where the list of participants, indicate their full names and contacts of relatives. This is necessary, since only relatives in the hospital can be told what happened to the person, and only they can be given a corpse. You will have the second copy of the route book with you on the route - one more backup of contact details with phones will not hurt. If you don't know how to fill it out, leave it blank. The ICC will tell you, if anything, fill in on the spot by hand. As is clear from the text above, we print the book in two copies, sign it wherever we can and bring it to the ICC.

Application for a trip to the ICC

There is a route qualification commission in almost every region of the Russian Federation, in Moscow there are MCCs in large tourist clubs at universities. The city MCC of Moscow is located at 17 Solzhenitsina Street (enter the courtyard and go up to the second floor, they don’t even have money for a sign), and it gathers on Wednesday evening (from 19.00 you can catch someone). If you live in Moscow and do not enter one of the major tourist clubs, go there right away. The IWC is a hangout of uncles-tourists, the sand from which does not pour, as a rule, because it has turned to stone. They work there completely voluntarily and for free. And so you don't owe anything. In the Moscow ICC, the main action takes place in an auditorium resembling a school class, where during the break people were divided into groups according to their interests. One of these bunches are members of the subcommittee for your type of tourism. If you have not found their contacts before and have not contacted, ask and they will tell you who to go to.

First of all, they are interested in the type of tourism (suddenly you have come to the wrong place), the category of the trip (suddenly you need to call more experienced colleagues) and the region of the trip (suddenly now there are no experts at the table of the area where you are going). Tell them right away, “I want to declare a water unit in the Amazon.” And give them your minibuses with maps. It is difficult to perceive information by ear, because they will read what you wrote in the route book. There will be questions to ask. Of course, the syndrome of the watchman (signer) is present in full, and you will definitely be told that the route is too short/long, difficult/simple, etc. Be sure to write something in the column "remarks of the IWC." Sometimes, when everything was completely flawless, they wrote to me “The itinerary book is carelessly framed” or about a mountain unit with 1A passes - “Pass passes in the morning hours.” In short, at least they are obliged to write something, take it easy. Maybe they don’t like everything at all, and they will say to redo the route / reprint the minibus. Therefore, preliminary contact by email with people from the IWC for the purpose of consultation (showing them your plans) can reduce the number of trips to the organization.

When the semantic part of your plan suits them, you will most likely be asked the question: “Are you going to participate in the championship?”. This does not mean your personal participation in the championship, but the participation of your trip report in it. If you want to get a sports category, then you need to participate in this championship, and, therefore, write a report (about it below). If you don’t care about the ranks, then just say: “No, we only need certificates.” Then the members of the IWC, perhaps, if you go to a unit that is not interesting for them in a long-traveled and well-described area, they will write to you in a minibus that the trip will be protected not in the form of a written report, but by showing photographs and a GPS track. Writing a report usually takes a lot of time and effort, and also requires the collection of information during the campaign. So if you don't need ranks, then avoiding writing a report is an important task.

After collecting three signatures of the members of the ICC (you will be told who to sign), put a stamp on the secretary of the tourist club, leave one copy with him and go home to dust off your backpack.

I'm going on a hike

When you signed the route book and stamped the ICC, you were instructed to report to whom from the tourist club about the passage of the group on the route. In short, the number of the person to whom to send the text message is indicated there: “Ivanov’s group went on the route in full force“ the number of the route book ””. And the same SMS about the end of the route. There are many groups, so the name of the leader and the number of the minibus are welcome. If you do not signal the end of the route for a long time, this person will start to worry, call relatives (their contacts are in the route book) and rescuers.

During the trip, you will have to take pictures at all key points on the route - passes, mountains and somewhere else with the whole group at once. The task is to prove that you all really were here. Also take pictures of technically difficult sections (crossings, slopes, rapids, etc.) and how your group overcomes them. The task is to prove that you really had obstacles of a certain complexity that make this trip categorical. It’s better to take a photo for the report to the manager on a separate camera, otherwise that deFachka-photographer with a camera weighing more than her will upload pictures in six months, after everything has been “processed”, and you need to write a report.

If you want to write a good report, then appoint a chronicler who will write down the times of halts, transitions, weather, and so on in a notebook. A report is easily written from a notebook of a good chronicler.

Writing a report

Find an example of a good report. For example here. Most of the reports are collected on tlib.ru And write according to the model about your campaign. Be careful not to post pictures that show a clear violation of safety regulations. They may not count the leadership of the campaign or the report will not take a high place in the championship. In general, the initial meaning of the report is not to receive information, but to describe the trip with a maximum of technical, not lyrical, details for those who want to repeat your hike or go part of your route. So write a report as an instruction for a tourist like you who wants to get all the information about the planned trip.

The report is printed, stapled and carried to the ICC. As with the application, sending an electronic version in advance to the members of the IWC is highly recommended to eliminate deficiencies.

If protection was assigned to you by showing a photo and a track, then simply merge it all into a folder on your laptop and go with it to the ICC.

We protect the report and receive certificates

Campaign protection is about the same as the application. They also ask questions and if everything is OK, they write in the minibus that the trip is counted in such and such a category. Usually this is the same category as declared. If you cut somewhere, then the category may become smaller. If it was for example hiking, and crossings are deeper than expected, the category may increase relative to the declared one.

ICCs are having a hard time getting money to pay for the rent of the premises where they meet, so certificates for each participant must be printed out by yourself. Here is the help form. If someone did not participate in some section of the route (for example, did not go to the radials on the mountains), then such participants may be counted as a lower category. Please note that on the reverse side the local obstacles passed by the participant are recorded with an indication of the category of obstacles - this is important information for assessing the participant's experience. The certificates are signed by a member of the ICC, the number of the route book and the seal.

Legalization. How to make a feint with your ears and get help without declaring a trip

Often there is such a situation that people already have some kind of hiking experience, and they want to get certificates for it, but they don’t want to go again alone and spend their vacation on it.

Then it is allowed to fool around once in a lifetime. Just go on a trip that actually corresponds to the category, but is not declared (there is no route book). Then write a report and come with it to the IWC. Also look for a subcommittee on your type of tourism, but start communicating with them with the words "I want to legalize the trip." If your report is normal, then the certificates will be signed for you, they will be stamped, only instead of a number they will have “b / n”.

Something like this. The main thing to remember is that the main thing is safe and joyful travel, not pieces of paper 🙂

I organize many trips, including categorical ones, the information that I post in my group on Vkontakte

In this article, we will talk in detail about non-categorical hikes, that is, weekend hikes. Contrary to the name, such a hike can last from one day to several years. Weekend hikes are any tours that do not fall under any sports category. The "Unexplored World" club has been organizing just such, non-categorical, trips for more than ten years now, and therefore we consider it necessary to tell in more detail about this phenomenon in the field of tourism.

Category and non-category trips

Category trips are sports trips, which are registered by a special commission at the Ministry of Tourism. She reviews applications for the route, talks with the leader of the group and studies the report on the trip, which is compiled by the group members after the end of the trip. we told in an article with the same name on the Club's website. If your route is not so long in terms of the number of days or has a smaller mileage, it is automatically assigned the status of a “weekend hike”, no matter how many kilometers you go and no matter what passes you conquer.

In addition, if you traveled one hundred and fifty kilometers on a bicycle, and then went hiking in the mountains, after which you tourist base rented a kayak and went downstream mountain river- all this will be considered a non-categorical hike, no matter how difficult it may be for you. Alas, the system of categorical hikes was inherited by us as a heritage of the USSR and has not been revised today, although a significant breakthrough has occurred in the field of tourism since those times.

Weekend hikes

In the opinion of the author of the article and the entire staff of the Unexplored World Club, weekend hikes are better than categorical ones. Yes, having passed a non-categorical route, you will not receive a mark in the tourist certificate and will not be able to be proud of your sporting achievements. In addition, there are a number of instructors who will not take you on a difficult categorical hike without a mark on the passage of simpler ones. There is no doubt that if you see tourism as a sport for yourself, then at least at first you should adhere to the classification of categorical trips until you learn the techniques of tourism and gain the necessary connections in the tourist environment.

But if hiking is easy for you outdoor activities, then there is no point in all this fuss. It is much easier to create an itinerary for a non-categorical hike, and you are not tied to a certain mileage or number of days of an autonomous hike, which allows you to make routes creative and varied, turning them into a real vacation for the soul. Many people discover active tourism when they are already old and grieve that category hikes are a closed door for them, but you can enjoy your stay in the mountains without participating in sports tourism. To do this, all you need is to decide to go on a weekend hike.

Joining a hike is easy. Main–your wish!

If you haven't been hiking before: participation in most programs does not require special training or experience, so you should not worry that you will not be able to do it, the main thing is desire, everything else will follow. Instructors have the necessary experience in organizing a hiking trip, who will share it with the participants during the trip.

All the instructors that you can see on our website are professional travelers who, on their own initiative, constantly go hiking and go on a variety of trips. So great to be able to join!

If you've never pitched a tent or cooked over a campfire, now is the time to give it a try, it's all about the fun! :) Even the seemingly difficult climb to the top of Elbrus is actually not so difficult. If you think that such a pleasure is still not for you - just choose one of the active programs available on our website with accommodation and meals at a camp site or in a hotel.

And of course, no matter what trip you choose, you will definitely make new interesting acquaintances on the trips!

Organization of tourist trips

The organization and conduct of hiking trips is a specialization of professional travelers (instructors), which you can find on our website. We invite everyone to participate in hiking in winter and summer! All you need is:

1. Decide where you want to go(at least in advance) and Send a request - click on the orange button in the table with the terms of the trip. The coordinator will contact you after submitting the application, and you can ask him all the questions you are interested in. Thus, we We will fully guide you and give you the information you need. From this moment on, you are a potential participant in the trip you have chosen.

Each route has a coordinator, his name and contacts are listed on the route page. Before submitting an application, you can call or write to the coordinator (if you do not know who your coordinator of the route you are interested in, call the toll-free number from anywhere in Russia 8-800-200-70-23) and ask all your questions. We will be happy to help you with the choice of a hike or an active tour!

2. Get information by e-mail or in person and conclude a contract. If you live in St. Petersburg or Moscow, you can come to our office (addresses below on this page). For participants from other cities, we will answer all questions in correspondence or by phone.

3. Make an advance payment(25% of the trip cost) to book a place in a group. Prepayment is possible in cash at the office or by bank transfer to the settlement account of our organization. Details will be sent by the coordinator.

4. Buy tickets(not usually required for a weekend trip). The cost of tickets is not included in the cost of the trip. We will provide you with information for purchasing a ticket on your own: the time until which you need to arrive at the meeting point of the group, the date. Time after which you can leave the end point of the route, date. We will tell you the numbers of convenient flights or trains, the numbers of cars in which other participants are already traveling. You can meet on the road! And after the end of the trip, you can stay at the resort or in interesting city and extend your vacation for any period, the instructor will help you find inexpensive accommodation! It is not necessary to leave on the day of the end of the route.

5. Pack your backpack and go hiking! Or pack a suitcase if you are going on a tour without backpacks :) The cost of hiking indicated on the website includes all expenses on the route (food, transport, excursions, group equipment, including tents, etc.). For alloys we provide catamarans or kayaks, life jackets, dry bags. If you do not have personal equipment (backpack, sleeping bag, foam mat, seat foam, trekking poles, crampons, ice ax) - you can also rent it from us.