Greetings to all readers! In this post I want to tell you how back in 2010 I, my brother and another man – let’s call it simply Head Squad (ie for their own reasons), was able to visit in South Yakutia and rafting on an interesting route. The journey begins as standard – zabroska from Yakutsk UAZ-aide.
We drove for about a day, arrived at the scene, inflated boats, going on a journey. It should be noted that all of the total experience rafting in our small group was reduced to a single passage of a mountain river, which is a child carried our Head Squad. But at the time of the start it did not seem to me quite so serious. Somewhere I read that the bottom of the inflatable boat with rafting protect tarpaulin. Therefore, in advance, in Yakutsk we had made a kind of canvas protection, apron, which my brother and I pulled on my boat.
In this photo, just very clear how I tie this device to the boat.
Cargo stowed and tied, vests and helmets on the ground. Photographed for the story. This is my brother.
Last preparations before departure.
We start from the bridge in the village Chulman on the eponymous river. Water a little, but enough for the passage of boats. Mid-August. On the route Chulman-Tommot we have been given a little more than ten days. Who still does not seem so complicated, we are in anticipation of unusual sensations and impressions.
Rafting began, the point of no return is passed, the car went back to Yakutsk. Fighting mood, which is not overshadowed even a little rain.
So we sailed slowly. However, the lower we descended the Chulmanu, the turbulent and restless he became.
In general, the closer to the mouth (I learned later that this place is called Chulmanskaya tube) we pinned to a rock and on our boat for broken oarlocks. It all happened very quickly, we did not even have time to get scared. Where oars where hands pushed and fell into the sink. On the discharge plate boat touched the bottom of the stone and gave a leak.
Unfortunately, the photos of this dramatic moment was not done.
Landed, gay and fabricated mounting otcherpali water. To the mouth Chulman was quite a bit.
Our canvas skid plate broke off and now only interfere. However, it can and has saved us from the breakout board, took a hit as the rock itself. The photo clearly shows that the port side, which we pinned to the rock, she divorced.
And then I realized, that is, I do not like rafting on mountain rivers. “We seem to have nothing left Shire, Pippin”
The first day of rafting is over, we reached Timpton and camped.
Set up tents, unloaded the boat to repair the bottom.
As it turned out, to find a smooth and dry place to camp quite a difficult task.
Morning, lifting and loading, quick breakfast and go.
The next ten days were all similar to each other.
On quiet stretches had paddled furiously to keep pace. Foot injury, then almost all the way to wear a bandage. By the way, did not know that from the long rowing ass rubbed corn!
But in the shallows had rowed not so much, but sometimes require a sharp change of course, not to fly somewhere.
All intelligence upcoming barriers came down to us getting up and obozrevaniya him from afar.
Sometimes it ended not very pleasant. Here under the stone in the center of our boat sucked reflow and was pouring water, while the water is still strove to turn the boat and shake us out of it. But though we panicked, but not hilarious cast, and after a few seconds (or eternity?) We pushed out of the barrel and carried on. In the photo – we landed on the beach – otcherpyvaem water.
And this – recreation on the river Chulmakan – interesting and beautiful place.
Two o’clock we arranged a halt and dinner. War-war, and lunch schedule.
Well, work, in fact, why we started all this.
Gait combat robot go to sample.
Here, too, a very interesting watercourse Barylas like. Color of the water is amazing.
Break camp for the night and have dinner in the dark. On the day we pass an average of about 50 km, when more when less. The record was seventy-kind of.
Interestingly, the fish are not caught on spinning at all. This is the only flax, which due to its persistence, managed to catch my brother Eugene. I caught a small grayling the bait in some of the tributaries. Online fish caught, but not as much as we would like.
And of course, significant places on Timpton:
Thresholds four brothers
And the boat on a rock – probably the monument to the dead.
Toward the end of our journey, the weather turned bad. Constantly walking a fine rain, inogoda replace large.
Dress code is changed. Dress Suit “Rain” in the rain, and you will know what rain! Wet suits for dinner. Had to get heavy artileriyu. Szymanowski suits “Beast Master” – did not disappoint. Later, during its operation it I never got wet. And the costumes “Rain” and the rest of the way lay under the benches in the boats.
This weather really did not have a day standing places and we have dinner, not approaching and tying boats on long stretches, which is closer to the mouth of becoming more.
Our simple lunch.
Approaching the mouth of the river grew wider rifts worse, and stretches more and more protracted. These stretches at the end has become a routine part of the alloy-irritating, and rolls – routinely terrible. Ten minutes voltage – and then two hours of rowing hellish Plyos until the next rolling. And so the whole day. But sometimes even amused rifts.
Unfortunately, this photo was the last for the camera. He nahlebalsya timptonovskoy cold water and do not ever filmed. A second camera gobbled up your battery and stopped working for about the fifth or sixth day. Therefore, the photo-finishes here to see prices.
After that we sailed a few more days to Timpton, and as were a little ahead of schedule, did a day’s rest in a day’s journey from the confluence of Timpton Aldan.
Then, dostignum Aldana, we put on one of the boats transom motor with water jet attachment – tridtsatisilnuyu Yamaha, which carried with them (!), Began the ascent in Tommot. By the way, pick up the entire load, key of the second boat, we’ve got only four flights. Was burned a lot of gasoline and nerves.
To summarize, I would say that rafting on the river. Timpton I still have mixed feelings. Our boat is absolutely not suitable for alloys. Stlani aluminum bottoms, transoms design – all this makes the alloy uncomfortable and even dangerous.
Design rowlocks – a separate issue. On the third day they were replaced with this:
Generally, this alloy can be entered into the books as a negative example. Not carried out reconnaissance and planning passing dangerous places, had no experience of participants of the alloy. Overloading boats things are not essentials. Here are just a short list of mistakes that more experienced rafters probably not complement one dozen points. But we were lucky sazochnym way. Without breakdowns and accidents, we have been quite a difficult route, which of course, is a cause for pride and a sense of satisfaction!
Not everyone can boast that went rafting on Timpton!
Source: Dnevniki.Ykt.ru
Translation: Google
