Ridge of the Stone Sea. Stone Sea Ridge (Lagonaki)

The Stone Sea is a mountain range at the eastern end of the Lago-Naki high plateau, stretching in an arc from the Azish-Tau ridge to the foot of Mount Oshten. But the ridge is unusual. The first association is another planet. However, the sea, petrified overnight, also slightly resembles. Storming, perhaps. Here are flat alpine meadows, and now groups of rocky outcrops are growing out of them, replaced by more and more powerful blocks. Then a seething "abyss" of solid stone grooves, faults or heaps, covered with moss and tall grass. Very beautiful and unusual.

But when we woke up in the morning in a tent set up in the picnic meadow of the Caucasian Reserve, we still did not know anything about this. The dawn did not please and restless in_windows went on exploration along one of the protected trails. I stayed in the camp, drank coffee and took pictures of the awakening nature. At night there was a minus, I was a little chilled in my sleeping bag, although I was in thermal underwear, socks, a knitted hat and a sweater. And now, if you sheltered from the wind behind the tent, you could already sunbathe. When he returned, Vasily said that there was nothing special nearby, but one of the travelers who met him on the trail advised him to go to the Stone Sea.

02 ... After idling until lunchtime and waiting for the first clouds to appear (in the morning the sky was absolutely bald), we began to pack up. Valuable things were hidden in the car, but they did not fold the tent and other shmurdyak. We took the essentials and set off on our way. Perhaps the tourists will not plunder our sleeping bags and strategic stock of stew while we go to the "sea".

03 ... Long or short, but after a few kilometers we approached him. The first powerful stone "wave", as if frozen in an attempt to wash away all life from the alpine meadows of Lagonaki, seemed so close, but in a strange way remained unattainable for a long time and we continued to stubbornly walk towards it. In the mountains, it is very difficult to assess distance, altitude and scale. And even more so in the photographs. That is why this post contains more than ever Vasya's photos. He will be a kind of standard of measures and weights.

04 ... Look: there seem to be just pebbles in the foreground, and pebbles sprinkled with snow in the background.

05 ... And if you send Vasily to the distant pebbles, and sink himself exhausted on last year's grass, then the scale of the first "wave" immediately becomes clearer. Behind it, by the way, is Mount Abadzesh with a height of 2360 meters. And through it, puffing, clouds crawl.

06 ... Will you find Vasya?

07 ... And here?

08 ... And now, having rested a little, at last, and I "plunge" into the Stone Sea. My legs are soaked through after overcoming several snowfields, my shoulder aches from a heavy camera bag, in my face and somewhere under my jacket an icy wind is blowing, but I am happy with the realization of the fact of taking this depth of height. Due to the uncertainty that my friend took at least a few pictures with me, I make a strong-willed decision to take a selfie in the style of "I was here."

09 ... I climb even higher and look around.

10 ... The southern part of the Stone Sea, into which we climbed, lies in the zone of alpine meadows, where buttercups, forget-me-nots, geraniums, Caucasian mountaineers, sweet peas, valerian, primrose and many other low herbs bloom in summer. There are thickets of juniper and Caucasian rhododendron.

11 ... And here is Vasily. Taking pictures of the opened view of Mount Oshten (2804 meters). I don't know how he feels, but I twisted my leg slightly and swear loudly. But not from pain - from delight. And for some reason spins in my head: " the whole world in the palm of your hand-you are happy and dumb".

12 ... Our stupid amateurish plan, when we left the camp, was as follows: find this very Stone Sea, ambush, wait for a beautiful light, remove this case and return. Arriving at the place, we figured out how long it took to get here (about 3 hours) and realized that if we do not want to break our legs or even fall into a karst funnel, of which there are enough here, then we must leave at least two hours before sunset ...

13 ... While the sun was still high, they made a halt, hiding from the wind behind a large boulder. Fraternally, we shared a thermos with hot coffee and an Alpen Gold chocolate. It turned out very symbolic, I think, taking into account our location: at an altitude of 1750 meters above sea level, surrounded by alpine and subalpine vegetation and fifty meters of limestone under our butts.

14 ... These limestones were formed about 130 - 120 million years ago, when there was a real sea here. In which the dinosaurs bathed.

15 ... Under the influence of temperature fluctuations, as well as the physical and chemical effects of water, limestones acquired a chaotic and highly rugged relief. Their surface is "eaten away" by furrows up to 2 m deep and up to 1 m wide and more. These are the so-called punishments. They are located in parallel rows, then they branch out in labyrinths and are separated by ridges of different heights and thicknesses.

16 ... There are funnels of various sizes next to the carats. Their walls are sometimes bare, rocky, sometimes covered with talus. Snow lies at the bottom of deep craters almost until the end of summer. In autumn and spring, it alternately thaws and then freezes and strongly contributes to the growth of craters in width and depth. Merging with each other, the funnels form karst ravines and dry valleys with an uneven bottom and alternating widening and narrowing.

17 ... A little later, it turned out that my phone was completely discharged, and Vasin was showing some abstract time (it got lost the day before). Since somewhere beyond Oshten, in spite of the frowning sky, something similar to a sunset had already turned yellow, we panicked a little that we had been resting for too long and got ready to go back, fearing to stay here in the dark.

18 ... Oshten together with Fisht (slightly blue on the left in the photo below) are the first peaks from the western end of the Caucasian ridge, rising to the height of the snow line and covered not only with eternal snow, but also with small glaciers. I take an extreme shot of this majestic giant and we, trying not to be distracted by photographing, are trying to get out closer to our camp as soon as possible.

19 ... There are no paths here. We go, or rather we climb, right in azimuth.

20 ... Climb a boulder, thinking that behind it is a relatively flat area, and there, on the contrary, is a karst ravine. The snowfields have ceased to go around altogether. Directly only. My feet are still wet through and through for a long time. Only when you fall knee-deep at the edge does it still slightly invigorate.

21 ... Probably, at one of these refreshing moments, Vasily had a fresh idea that in order to find out the time, it is necessary and sufficient just to take a frame and look directly at the shooting parameters in the camera. It turned out that there was still time before dark, but since this is the case, it’s better to hurry, because during the morning reconnaissance Vasily noticed one place not far from the camp, where there is a chance to shoot something decent in good light. And again, limping and cursing, I hurried after my comrade.

22 ... When we got out of the Stone Sea, the light really began to appear periodically and on the run I took off one of its interesting texture "stone puddles".

23 ... But by the time we reached the place explored by Vasya and made several sighting shots, the weather suddenly deteriorated very sharply. The sun slightly illuminated the peaks of the distant mountains and disappeared. At all. Even my hands began to freeze without gloves, and even in such a heat as now it is chilly to remember about wet feet. With a strong-willed jerk, they hit the tent and, not finding any signs of a break-in, began to cook dinner.

PS After rereading what was written, I realized that our heroic hike of 11-12 kilometers would seem ridiculous to an experienced hiker with a 20-kilogram backpack on his shoulders. Yes, I agree. But for me, who has been leading a sedentary lifestyle for many years, without normal shoes, trekking poles, with an uncomfortable bag on my shoulder and a tripod in my hand, it was a serious march, which, in addition to a heap of emotions, helped me to realize and accept the fact, that I will never be so categorical about hiking. If earlier I would answer “no” to the offer to go hiking, but now, if these are the same beautiful mountains, the view of which will extinguish my fatigue and inspire me to go further and further, then I’m ready to try again somehow ...

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What miracles you can not find in the mountain! There is also a Stone Sea here. This is the name of the limestone formation formed 125-130 million years ago, encircling the plateau with a hundred-meter ridge. A rocky ridge begins, resembling a deep sea frozen in a storm, at the Azish-Tau ridge, stretching to the very base of Oshten. They get to it along a gravel road in the direction from the Lago-Nak highlands.

The thickness of limestone here reaches 35-50 m. The height of the massif reaches 1750 meters above sea level. The relief is ambiguous, so the ridge resembles a steep stone strip. Karst sinkholes 2 meters deep seem to have been washed out by a water column. They are scattered between dolomite towers and lonely cliffs. The bottom of the sea that once existed here is dotted with furrows that are not visible in the dense forbs. The holes have different shapes: round, flat or pointed. Reef limestones, which once emerged in a tropical climate, have acquired a rugged relief under the influence of movements in the earth's firmament. The depth of some formations allows snow not to melt in them even on the hottest days. Be very careful when navigating stone ridges.

At the confluence of several depressions, deep and wide valleys are formed. Literally everywhere, as if someone specially casually scattered stone blocks covered with moss and grass: either stuck in the bottom, then lying in different places, then in their movement they suddenly froze in stone. There are both sharp and polished lumps. The feeling of being in space, on the surface of a planet pitted with craters with traces of volcanic activity, does not leave for a minute.

In the north, in its upper part, the ridge is overgrown with coniferous forests. There are maple and birch here. Under the protection of age-old trees in the second lower tier, fertile shrubs (raspberries, currants, mountain ash) feel great. From the south, along the ridge, there are alpine meadows in a colored sundress of herbs from buttercups, valerian, purple thyme, rhododendron, geranium, forget-me-nots, poppies, juniper. On the flower carpet, as if through holes, lonely rock formations peep out here and there, passing into a garden of stone outliers of bizarre shapes and sizes.

The top of the Stone Sea ridge is considered to be the peak of refraction - the Nagoy-Kosh rock (2050 m above sea level). If, before rising to it, the surface of the plateau rises gradually, then after, from the eastern hill, the massif abruptly breaks down. Nagoy-Kosh is a pitcher with a legend about unfortunate lovers: the shepherd Lago and the daughter of the noble prince Naki. Their burial in the form of a mound, according to legend, can be seen at the top of the cliff.

Enchanting views of mountain landscapes, heaps of collapsed boulders open up on the horizon. The proximity of snowy peaks affects the local microclimate. Even at the time of the active solstice, a cool freshness is felt, and the proximity of the snow "pops" creates the impression of their easy accessibility. One of the attractions of the rock ridge is the Ozernaya cave. The stalactite and stalagmite decoration resembles an openwork ornament, which gives a special charm to high vaults, underground labyrinths, and wet columns. There is also an underground lake with clean drinking water.

From the observation point of Nagoya-Kosh, a wide view of the territory of the St. Michael's monastery, villages and Maykop with its surroundings, mountains

 

In the Maikop region of Adygea, there is the Kamennoye More ridge, stretching from the Azish-Tau ridge to the Oshten foothills around the Lagonaki plateau.

The Kamennoe Sea mountain range is composed of layered and reef limestones that formed in the Upper Jurassic Sea more than 130-120 million years ago in a tropical climate. The size of the limestone strata that formed the ridge is thirty-five to fifty meters. As a result of the upward movement of the Alpine orogenesis, the limestone stratum was raised to a height of 1750 meters above sea level. Under the influence of temperature, chemical and physical effects of water, limestones acquired a chaotic, rugged relief. Their surface is corroded by carrs (furrows) up to one meter wide and up to two meters deep. Carrs are located both in parallel rows and in labyrinths separated by ridges of different thickness and height.

Along with carr, there are funnels of various sizes, at the bottom of which snow lies until the end of summer. In spring and autumn, the snow in the funnels melts in places, and in places freezes again, thereby contributing to the deepening and expansion of the funnels. In some cases, funnels, merging, can form ravines and even dry valleys.

Forests grow in the northern part of the Kamennoye More ridge: pine, fir, birch and maple form the upper layer, raspberries, mountain ash and currants grow in the undergrowth. The southern part of the ridge is a zone of alpine meadows, where buttercups, geraniums, forget-me-nots and crayfish neck, valerian, sweet peas and primrose bloom on summer days.

Kamennoe Sea ridge often visited by tourists. On weekends, tourists from Maykop and other cities often come here.

There are several small caves and grottoes on the Kamennoye More ridge, and the Ozernaya cave is not far away. From the edge of the rocks hanging over the Ozernaya Cave, a magnificent panorama of the Peredovaya ridge opens up: the peaks of Bambak, Achezhbok, Dzhuga, Small and Big Tkhach and Urushten are visible at a glance.

The "waves" of the Stone Sea now stand vertically in the dense grass cover, then they "roll" up and down and freeze in the stone. They are either round and unusually smoothed, or sharp and elongated. The Stone Sea ridge is so unusual that any corner of it is a separate world, with an unearthly landscape.

The Kamennoye More ridge refracts at the highest point of the ridge - the Nagoy-Kosh cliffs, and covers the Lago-Naki plateau with a 100-meter rock belt. This place is amazing, in clear weather you can see the mountains from here

Trekking from the Azish pass through the Stone Sea to the Fisht shelter, a radial to Fisht and an exit to Guzeripl.

1.1. Stone Sea Ridge .

2. Mount Fisht.

1.1. The Stone Sea Ridge.

I got up at 7:00, at 11:00 I took shape and went through the Lago-Naki checkpoint.
After the checkpoint, I walked along the road and trail to the observation deck on the Kamennoye More ridge, before that one could also go to this observation deck.
1. View of Azish-Tau - Ozernaya cave somewhere there.

2. View towards Guzeripl.

Then I wandered along the paths among the karst gaps. Many of these wikimapia failures have access to the caves (tyk, tyk, tyk, and the Absolute Mine). But without special equipment and skills to climb into these caves is useless.
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12. I found a small camp (on the territory of the reserve, the camp can be set up only at official sites - this is not one of them).

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21. View towards the Fisht, Oshten and Pshekha-Su mountains.

1.2. Instructors' Window, Guzeripl and Armenian passes, Fisht shelter.

1. From the Stone Sea passed through the Abadzesh pass to the Rubleniy stream.

2. Near the Rubenny stream there is an official parking and a house (? Shelter?).

3. And just above the waterfall.

4. To the southeast of the parking lot (a fork to the east of the parking lot) there is a road to Instructorskaya Shchel, and in the south there is a small cave-grotto and a trail to Instructorskoye Okno.

5. Walking through the Instructor Window.

6. View of the Instructor's Gap and the Kamennoye More ridge.

7. Trail to the Guzeripl pass.

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17. Fisht shelter is visible in the valley.

18. But before him you still need to walk through the forest and cross the Belaya River and several of its tributaries.

I put up a tent near the shelter, hung out in the booths, and found 3 people who were going to go to Fisht tomorrow morning.
We agreed to go out at 5-6 in the morning and went to bed.

2. Mount Fisht.

Got up at 4:30, got ready by 5 - rain. He walked around, kicked the tents, in which people seemed to be sleeping, who were going to Fisht, but no one got out) To go alone is not an option, the weather is not flying anyway. At 5:30 I climbed back into the tent and began to fall asleep.

Suddenly, at about 7 o'clock, Dmitry came. He got up at 6:00 and already found two more who were going to Fisht, but their tent and equipment got wet overnight - they were not going anywhere. After all, we decided to go together, because the weather forecast for the next few days was absolutely bad - either now, or in a week at best, or not at all this year. At 7:30 we left the shelter - there was still enough time. It took us 9 hours to complete the radial (you need to lay it from 7 to 11 hours) - we returned before dark with a margin of 1-2 hours. Total round trip 12 km, ascent, and then descent ~ 1250m

1. We pass from the south of the Red Rocks.

2. We rise higher - while there are still landmarks. Here the rain gradually turns to snow.

3. On the glacier - milk. Of the landmarks - only crevices.

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5. If there are no crevices nearby, then there is a white void around - no landmarks. In such conditions, it would be better to have at least 2 navigators per group.

6. Top of Fisht. The wind is especially strong and gusty here. If you are not careful, it can simply blow off the "bridge" that is visible here in front of the summit. In good weather, the view from here should be amazing, but now the visibility is at best 50 meters, if only in this radius there are not particularly snow-covered rocks, but such rocks are rare.

7. We return. Here you can already relax - and the trail is not particularly steep, and much warmer than above, and most importantly, good visibility. Even if it gets dark, it's not a problem to get from here to the shelter. Only here the digital camera fogged up from the inside.

8. In the distance you can see the Fisht shelter.

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10. We pass one of the tributaries of the Belaya river.

11. Fossil on the bank of the stream. I forgot to mark with a dot on the track, but on the way back you can see the deviation to this stream and the time when the photo was created coincides - coordinates: latitude 43 ° 58 "3.81" N, longitude 39 ° 55 "37.33" E by Google.

At 16:30 we were at the shelter - they began to celebrate)

3. Shelter Fisht - Partisan glade.

For most of the next day, it was pouring rain. I sleep off, try to dry my clothes in the tent, cook food in the vestibule - boring things.
1. Dining room

The next day it became sharply colder, instead of rain it started to snow. I got tired of hanging out in a tent, and I moved to the shelter. He filled up the tent with stones so that the wind would not blow away and left it near the shelter, in the hope that the next day it would be drier and it would dry out at least a little.

The next morning, instead of my tent, I watched from the window of the shelter an even layer of snow. At first I thought that he had piled up a few stones, and she was still blown away by the wind, or simply the arcs broke. But everything turned out to be much worse - a bear came at night - it broke and tore everything. There were only 2 discharged batteries left in the tent - he bit them too. The result of teddy curiosity is separate.

The next day it got warmer, the sun appeared, even the snow melted in the clearing. But the tent would not dry out anyway, because it often rained. At night, the bear returned, did not find the tent, and therefore came off on the garbage cans.
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A day later I packed up and went out in the direction of Guzeripl - through the passes "Armenian" and "Guzeripl" to Yavorovaya Polyana. On the passes, ankle-deep or knee-deep snow, when I walked to the shelter, there was none at all.
.Yavorovoy meadow.
In Guzeripl, the driver took me to a store, the owners of which rented rooms of the junior suite type nearby in their house. Because I was the only guest, I had almost a suite for 1000r for a 2-bed room (only without a bathroom).

Early in the morning I took the first bus to Maykop, from Maykop I took a bus to Belorechensk. In these cities, I also had to get from the station to the station by local public transport, which is not very convenient. I liked the Belorechensk - Khadzhokh (Kamennomostsky) train much more, but it rarely runs. In Belorechensk in the late afternoon of September 29, I was lucky to take a ticket to Moscow, the next day - October 1 - I was at home. I left home on the night of September 1 - exactly a month had passed.
In total: 19 full walking days, 2 half walking days (when transferring to Guamka and Guzeripl), 1 day in Khadzhokh, 1 near the Azish pass and 4 in the Fisht shelter (when the bear ate the tent), and about 3 days on the road to Adygea and back ...

- Track (corrected and supplemented) - Azishsky pass - Kamennoe More ridge - Abadzesh lane - Instructorskoe Window - Guzeripl lane - Armenian lane - Fisht shelter
- Fisht shelter - Fisht - Fisht shelter
- shelter Fisht - lane Armenian - lane Guzeripl- Paul Yavorov - Art. Partisan ( tourist base Krasny Partizan).
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This season I have been brought to these places for the sixth time. On the first day, it was planned to find and ransack the Ozernaya cave, then go out into the meadow zone and spend the night somewhere. On the second day, proceed to the Stone Sea ridge and finally get to know it better. For most tourists and excursionists, acquaintance with the Lago-Naki highlands, in fact, usually begins from this ridge. It turned out the opposite for me. Now I decided to fill this gap as well. And I didn’t regret it.

The lake was found easily and quickly. In the area of ​​the Kazachiy shelter, we climbed, parallel to the ski lift, to the steep eastern border of the Azish-Tau ridge. A good panorama opened from the cliff.

Then we turned to the right and, along a quite readable and occasionally marked path, went through the forest along the cliff. After 30-40 minutes, in a symbolic place, we went down under the wall and found the entrance to the cave in the form of a hole, resembling someone's hole. Hey master of the house ...?

The small entrance created the illusion of insignificance of further space. But inside, it immediately transformed into a wide and rather spacious corridor.

Walking along it, you move deeper, into the darker part of the corridor

And then to the treasury of a wide variety of drip formations. The lake is not very large in size, about a hundred meters long. But she is rich!

True, we did not find an underground lake. It supposedly appears during the rainy season. But what kind of figures are not here.

There were also very large

The advantages of the cave include the absence of dirt, excessive dampness and its ease of passage. No skins, sharp changes in height, etc. The main path is overcome in full growth.

Only in some places, pointwise, it is necessary to show quite feasible efforts, if you are not too burdened with "large dimensions"

Many stalactites were beaten off. Moreover, in some places they are very thick. From this, I concluded that the point is not vandals, but in the natural processes of deformation. Probably Ozernaya experienced tremors and hesitation. But this did not particularly spoil my mood, as there were too many figures, columns and statues here.

Someone might argue skeptically: “So what is so special about this cave? How does it differ from the same Bolshaya Azishskaya to go here? " Yes, even the fact that Azishskaya is an excursion object, equipped with all sorts of elements of civilization, alien to the harmony of wild nature, and Ozernaya is a tourist one. And this is a completely different matter. A different perception.

After Ozernaya we moved to the green-beige meadows of the wilting highlands.

Bright green islands against the background of soft, pastel colors, here and there, stood out and attracted the attention of juniper bushes.

Mount Oshten in the background

They began to wander in search of any source of drinking water in order to anchor near it for the night. But with water at this time it turned out to be tight. We went out to the shepherd's booths.

Intuition dictates that since there is housing, then there must be water, if we are not talking about a drying out spring. The spring turned out to be alive. Lucky. But not only this. A new, recently erected and equipped booth, generously sheltered us, offering us soft beds, a stove-stove, firewood, and even coal. “Life is good for today,” the elder said calmly. Indeed, the night turned out to be gorgeous, especially taking into account the fact that at night in the open air the Dubak played out a serious one.

In the middle of the night, hungry mice became active, sensing the smell and abundance of fresh food that suddenly appeared on their territory.

In the morning, Sparrow and I split up. I immediately headed towards the karst field of the Stone Sea ridge, and he decided first to run to the Murzikao plateau in the area of ​​Mount Abadzesh, then to join me in the area of the Nagoya-Kosh massif (Stan Nagoytsev) - the highest point of the Stone Sea. Having thanked our friendly booth for the hospitality and warm, in all respects welcome, we parted from him in diametrically opposite directions

Hello Zaychenku!

Without knowing where to start from, I walked stupidly from the booth in a straight line, towards the eastern edge of the Stone Sea. Before reaching the wooded area, I ran into a giant karst sinkhole. The word funnel doesn't even fit here. This is some kind of failure of stone piles, consisting of pits, zigzagging one into another. All this structure, expanding, then narrowing, went somewhere in the future. A hopeful start, however!

Further, the kingdom of stone, mixed with groves, was everywhere here. Being here for the first time and moving deeper and deeper into this chaos, you feel a slight sense of anxiety. The place is very peculiar. Separately located funnels

Remains of the fortress walls

And almost craters.

And even tunnels and labyrinths. I did not expect such a scale. Some kind of repulsive and at the same time attractive horror emanates from these failures. Even over the abyss of Nagoya-Kosh later, I did not feel such an oppressive feeling, a mystical chill, as in these holes, striving to fall somewhere into the underworld.

Somewhere here there is an Absolute cave, 2 km long. Only one vertical shaft, going deep into it, from the bottom of the same karst funnel, is 165 m. diameter. To get and explore such a cave is not to go to Ozernaya, of course. Personally, I definitely can't imagine myself there, twisting on a rope, somewhere in the middle of a stone well in the kingdom of absolute darkness. But I reverently admire those who can do it.

Further sections became more and more difficult to pass. The backpack behind my shoulder exacerbated the problem. After taxiing back towards the plateau, I found myself in a more temperate zone of the rock garden.

The time of the arrow with the Sparrow was running out and I headed past these endless statues, towards the highest point of the stone sea, the Nagoya-Kosh massif, tacking between the craters. By some miracle, Sparrow and I did not miss each other this time and were reunited right away. The view from Nagoya-Kosh was magnificent. From here you can see not only Oshten, but also a significant part of Fisht.

As if competing and boasting of their power, the rocky cliff of the Stone Sea advanced with a giant shoulder to the right, like a frozen Tsunami wave.

Frozen waves of the Stone Sea

The left shoulder of the ridge in relation to the Nagoy-Kosh massif.

Below I could guess the Yavorov glade and the road leading to it.

A cool panorama opened towards the mountains of the Caucasian Reserve with powdered peaks.

Once upon a time, the shepherd Laga and the princess Na-ka (?), Who was selflessly in love with him, jumped into this abyss, fleeing the pursuit of the princess's enraged and mercantile dad. Horror! Perhaps the denouement could have become less dramatic? Perhaps daddy, having resigned himself, wanted to catch up with them in order to convey the good news. Say, stop running, hiding. We got it. I bless you. May you live happily ever after. And they take it, yes sigoni. It is a pity that in those days mobile phones did not exist yet. But then the epilogue would have been in Brazilian, not Circassian style. And the legend would not have been born.

Sparrow and I confined ourselves to throwing several large stones into the abyss, without thinking, by the way, that there might be some restless climber under the wall. Yes, the heroes of the Adyghe epic had to fly far.

Evergreen juniper above the cliff is tenacious.

I definitely liked everything. Not a hike, but a romantic, relaxed walk. What we do not often happen ...