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Cherdyn - Nyrob - Valay - the Beryozovaya River
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THE ADVENTURES TEMPT…
In the middle of August 2006 Sergey Valeyev together with his
family, Andrey Budin 'Amkar' and Alexey Shurakov had a several-week
lasting expedition.
This is what Sergey Valeyev told us:
- What were your plans for this expedition?
- We wanted to reach Krasnovishersk, cross the Vishera, ride onto
the Polyudov Stone and further on much depended on the circumstances.
- And what was it like in reality?
- 20 kilometres away from Krasnovishersk there are some interesting
mushroom places. As we meant to travel over the areas we took
a turn and immediately got stunned - so many mushrooms we saw!
During 2-3 hours we picked up several boxes of them. We stayed
there for the night and did not go to Poludov Stone. The thing
was that the crew of Alexey Shurakov and Andrey Budin 'Amkar'
had to have an encounter the next day. It was to happen in the
suburbs of Cherdyn. On the way to Cherdyn, short of Nyrob we spent
the night near the new bridge across the river Kolva. The next
day all the three cars assembled there, had a final refuel in
Nyrob and moved on.
Exactly on the way from Nyrob real adventures began. We drove
off towards Valay - the distance of 42-43 km could hardly be called
a track. You would not skid there or get stuck but you would surely
'kill' the car with no effort. It is thrown up with stones and
completely beaten.
Two days before the departure I installed two Mercedes buffers.
The channel was welded to the axle and the buffers were welded
to the channel. On that road to Valay the channel was torn away
from the axle…
- What was the destination?
- There is the abandoned village Talovo and the local inhabitants
call the road there 'peresheyek' (isthmus). They think that if
you have been to the isthmus and came back under your own steam
- then it was good luck! So as our cars were very well prepared
we forced our way through comparably easily, even did not use
the winch.
There are very many little rivers but the bridges across them
all collapsed. Whenever you gather speed you soon have to brake
so that to cross the river slowly. We went that way for 50 km.
We stopped for the night three kilometres short of Talovo on the
opposite bank with the tourists who could not depart for three
days (waited for GAZ-66 to be towed away). Later the next day
we drove them on one of our cars to Talovo.
Talovo is located in a most picturesque place on a steep bank.
The village is not habitable but there are still glasses in the
windows and Russian baths are safe. In the village itself almost
in every yard and house there are bear's, wolf's and elk's skins.
100 metres short of the village there are ant hills turned upside-down,
rumpled raspberry-canes and bear's manure everywhere. Great amounts!
Then we came back to our camp to take our families who waited
for us. We did not live in those houses but pitched tents. Spent
there two days. Washed in the Russian bath 'po-chyornomu', that
means a bath with no chimney. When you stoke it the smoke does
not come out of the chimney but filling the whole bath it leaves
it through the door, that is why it is black and coaly from inside
and bears the name 'banya po-chyornomu', i.e. black bath.
- What was the way back like?
- The way back was through the isthmus - we rode all together.
As it had been raining the track had become worse and more difficult
to go on. In one place even GAZ-66 got stuck and broke right on
the road in the narrow between hills. We had to go around it across
the hill.
When we came back to Nyrob one of our crews (Alexey Shurakov)
had to go to Perm, but we (Sergey Valeyev and Andrey Budin) still
had some time. We resolved to follow the route - Krasnovishersk,
Vaya, Zolotanka, Naus (see the scheme of the trip).
The track from Krasnovishersk to Vaya reminds one from Nyrob to
Valay.
We rolled by the Pomyanennyi Stone and took a picture from a distance
because we had not planned to travel to it. Reached Zolotanka.
Further on lay the route Eurasia-trophy. Behind Zolotanka there
is the river Uls in which we rode right in the water. What used
to be a road now was flooded. Several times the water reached
the headlights and penetrated into the body.
Sometimes the current was so strong that the generator failed
but there were no serious breakages luckily. In the Uls the axle
of our vehicle rested against a large cobble thus we had to pull
it out by another car.
We got to Kutim. On the way we winched fairly often, there were
traces of 'Eurasia-trophy'. We also saw marks of cars 'Niva' and
bicycles. We went along that path and imagined the way they had
driven here before us - they had been numerous - 'UAZ' vehicles
and 'Niva' cars, for which that track was not suitable at all.
Later they told me that 'Niva' cars were drawn by the 'tank' vehicle.
In Kutim lives a 'solitary wolf' and he has got a creeper tractor,
which people call a 'tank.'
Following the traces of the expedition we found a lot of funny
belongings - torn gym-shoes and trainers…
Then began the areas where we had to fell trees, which was much
easier.
Mikhail SHARDIN.
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