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Just a stream...
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A glen than forced us to leave the
Kjuerter river for a while.
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Descending the snow covered Kjuerter
valley.
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Mushrooms did not expect snow in July
neither.
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Descending slopes of big stones covered
by snow was not pleasant at all.
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Mountains seemed to be even more
beautiful when covered with snow.
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Well, sometimes there was quite a lot of
snow that summer.
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Buodakh massif with summer snow -
everything look better, shapes of moutains are more distinct.
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Drying of wet clothes in taiga.
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There are more beautiful mountains than
Pobeda (the highest one) in Buordakh massif.
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Our march through taiga.
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Another bear's footprint - now in the
snow.
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A beautiful lake near the ford across
Tirekhtiakh river.
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A beautiful lake near the ford across
Tirekhtiakh river.
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A moss circle.
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Crossing of Tirekhtiakh river on the way
to Saryr (we did not meet the people with katamaran for us). Tt was our
fault as well, we were waiting at a wrong place most of the time. But
katamaran was broken, so we would have to go to Sasyr for motor
boat anyway.
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The trekking was most demanding for
our feet...
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Horns of a precious mountain ram
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A burnt forest on the way to Sasyr.
Large areas of taiga forest burn every year. Year 2002 was especially
bad in this way.
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Buordakh massif, Pobeda mountain could be
probably seen somewhere in the distance .
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Just the grass...
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Just the grass...
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A house of horse breeders about 15 km
south-west from Sasyr.
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The tough Yakutian horse. It must
survive minus 60° Celsius temperatures and even find grass under
snow by itself. Only foals are being fed by people during winter.
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The first horse breeders, that we met.
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Around the horse breeders' house
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A pole used for taming of horses.
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A ford over Moma river on the way to
Sasyr.
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