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Last Saturday, our region experienced frost down to minus 8° Celsius and fog in the valleys, which cleared up around noon, revealing the trees and bushes "decorated" with hoarfrost.
Letzten Samstag hatte es in unserer Region Frost bis minus 8° Celsius und Nebel in den Tälern, der sich gegen Mittag auflöste, so dass die mit Raureif "geschmückten" Bäume und Sträucher sichtbar wurden.
Melbourne has experienced a wonderful Indian summer this year, and as a result, not only are the Autumnal colours starting to appear, but there are still plenty of beautiful blooms.
This orange rose standing in the midst of a lush green garden on a walk I took last week caught my eye. I don't know what variety it is, but as the single bloom on the bush, or in the entire garden it was a delight to see.
We've all experienced giving a live presentation, when someone in the audience falls asleep, snoring. Maybe the root cause is narcolepsy, or the baby wailing all night long, or it's simple boredom. Whatever! Well, PIZAZZ, Inc. has devised an FDA-cleared low-dose electric stun gun that can gently awaken the offending party from as far as 50 feet away! Works great on airplanes too!!!! No license required.
Experienced before the heat wave we now have--but the water's edge is still the best place to get comfortable! We are in for a week of high-90s--very unusual for the Bay Area.
Still Experienced XL Band - Jazzit Musik Club Salzburg, 17.09.2020
www.jazzfoto.at/konzertfotos20/still_experienced_xl_band/...
Besetzung
Chris Haller: guitar, voc
Peter Guschelbauer: keys, voc
Andreas Szelegowitz: drums
Jürgen Haider: sax
Charly Schmid: sax
Georg Schwantner: sax
Stefan Fellner: trumpet
Gerald Silber: trumpet
Alois Eberl: trombone
"I feel that nothing can befall me...which nature cannot repair" Ralph Waldo Emerson ❤
I like to get out everyday especially on these dark winter days. no matter how cold. I am an experienced winter bike rider, but sometimes even I miss calculate. Today I stayed out too long, and the bike ride home was a bit scary. So glad to have a warm home to come back to.
Thank-you to all who take the time to comment on my photos it is greatly appreciated !
"A ripple effect occurs when an initial disturbance to a system propagates outward to disturb an increasingly larger portion of the system, like ripples expanding across the water when an object is dropped into it."
This is not just a duck in a pond at sunset. It is a symbol of a phenomenon that we have all experienced directly in 2020. At one level the COVID-19 virus spread from one part of the world to everywhere very quickly like ripples on a pond. But not just the virus. The follow on effects of lock downs, loss of freedoms, jobs, security, pressure on medical systems, collapsing economies, all point to the ripple effect.
But ripple effects are not all bad either. In fact the same principle can lead to rapid solutions and even the healing of the world's woes. If we can find a way to create positive solutions to enhance the eco-system of our planet things can get better. But the choice is ours.
We experienced a couple beautiful sunsets while we were in Baker, Nevada near the Great Basin National Park. We went there because we wanted to see their famous bristlecone pines. Unfortunately there was so much snow at the 10,000 foot level that we didn't get to see the pines. But we got some sunsets as consolation.
Johnston Canyon, Banff National Park Alberta, Canada
So I just got back a few days ago from a solo road-trip up to Canada. I had snagged a campsite at Lake O'Hara back in April and have been eagerly awaiting the trip since. I spent 4 nights between Lake O'Hara, Banff, and Jasper. I went on glorious hikes and made about a million side excursions. I'll have more details written up later in an album description when I have more patience. In a nutshell, I had a blast despite a little bad weather and experienced incredible natural grandeur.
This location is along the super popular Johnston Canyon trail (there were hordes of people on the trail, almost making it unbearable for me). I knew about this little spot and had done a little research as to what to look for but even then, when I "found" the trail it was still a surprise to me since I wasn't 100% sure where it was. I was absolutely thrilled to have found it, and basically had the whole place to myself (there was a couple there doing some shots, but they were respectful and didn't detract from the splendor in any way) for a good 30 min or so. It is probably the coolest thing ever to see. And even though that rock looks like an island, it's just a matter of perspective and is actually a jutting, curved land mass.
This is also my first true HDR photo, and I think I did an alright job; no over-the-top glow effect or details. If you think I could do better, I would appreciate any advice since I am new at this and am really just sort of winging it.
I will have a ton of photos to post, but I won't inundate you with all of them at once, and I still have hundreds to go through. Just thought this would be a good start.
Cheers!
Dramatic golden hour lights up the sky beyond the Vancouver Rowing Club
As captured from Stanley Park
Coal Harbour
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
A special thanks to all my Flickr friends and visitors, for taking the time to view and acknowledge my photography.
Happy Clicks,
~Christie (happiest) by the Oceanside :-)
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In 1990 I told local anglers to me, who at the time were much more experienced fisherman than me. I'm going to fish that lake Salagou in France. Bare in mind I had only started carping in 1987. Though Salagou was a lake I believe at the time you had more of a chance of getting a run compared to St. Cassein back in the day. I don't know much about Salagou these days. Though then I was met with comments like Salogou is even bigger than Cassein you nutter. I think Salagou is about 1,800 acres in size, but don't quote me on that. I managed to knock a couple out of there though, the largest 22Lb. Luckily they were only small ones compared with what was in there. Well I thought I had stepped up to the plate at the time. Using far heavier tackle. Back home previously I'd been using lines as light as 8Lb to catch carp up to 32Lbs. I was now in France on 15Lb line, and angling with 2½ Lb test curve through action rods.. Which at the time I thought I was fully beefing it up tackle wise. I remember taking twenty kilos of red smelling fish boilies with me, and bringing back home ten kilo's.
I didn't go on my own though. I went with some other blokes known as 'The Chettles Carp Catchers'. It don't seem so many British carp anglers adventure abroad nowadays to fish large lakes or rivers. Like they did in the eighties, and nineties.
Maybe now more fish the smaller runs waters, because they want to be in with more of a chance of a near definite capture. Also unfortunately life become more expensive. So many now can't afford the bait, tackle, food, petrol etc costs. Though it proves you don't always need lots of bait like some tell you do, when fishing a short sessions on such a water like Salagou.
Though it's good to see some Brits are still getting out to the larger waters in France and further a field, and still catching a few. Though their tackle is far more superior to what I've ever used. I always end up hiring boats with holes in, or my dingy always ends up a carp mat, because the wind on such lakes and rivers always just throws me about to much. Making it impossible to bait up from my dingy. So I usually end up always fishing close in and pulting free baits out, but it's not ever prevented me from catching.
What I hadn’t realised yet, was quite how much of a headache this was going to turn out to be. Earlier, on the cobbled beach at Cala Barril, I’d experienced one of those moments when everything slows down yet speeds up at the same time. Twice, three times I thought I’d caught it as gravity took its toll and my prized, loved, most often used of the lot of them six stop filter headed towards its fate. And what’s so flipping annoying is that there’s only the tiniest mark on the filter. Really, it’s quite infinitesimal when I look at it. Hard to believe that those two unsightly blotches that look like raindrops have hit the front element can come from such a miniscule blemish. All of this at the very first scene on the very first day of shooting. Folder number one of many to come on this adventure. And of course it was one of those nice magnetic filters that didn’t come out of a Christmas cracker or the bargain shelf on Amazon or eBay. Replacing it was going to be a tedious and expensive exercise. It was still just about usable in the right lighting conditions, but the removal tool was going to be busy in the rare instances in which it came into play.
We’d come to the north coast a couple of days after arriving on the island, once the standard period of settling in on the local beach at our resort under a warm October sun had been observed. It wasn’t a long drive - nowhere really is in Menorca - along the main road to the inland town of Es Mercedal, from where we headed towards the sea on a quiet narrow road flanked by low rounded hills and small pine forests. A long bumpy track led us to a rough parking area where just a handful of cars had been left waiting for their owners to return. Over here, away from the tourist havens of the south, the landscape was wild and untamed, and the tail end of a storm that had crossed the mainland was whipping up a sea that I’m more used to seeing on wintry days at home. It’s an island of contrasts, and if you’re prepared to put in the shoe leather you’ll find some splendid isolation on this sparsely populated northern expanse of empty beaches on a windswept afternoon.
From the car park we walked towards the west, following the long distance trail, the Cami de Cavalls that traces the circumference of the island, slowly making our way towards Cala Pregonda and its unmistakable sea stack that protruded from the shallows like a huge sharkfin. We’d stop here on the way back, but for now we’d keep on walking towards a place where I’d hoped to find another sea stack I’d spotted in the magazine that had been left in our apartment. It turned out that the location tag it had been given, Cala Barril, was a red herring. Half an hour later we stood on the empty stony beach watching the waves race in. An average day for one of my local haunts at home, but a feisty one for this gentle sun kissed Balearic haven. There was no sign of the rocks I’d been led to believe were here (we’ll come to those in another tale of modest disappointment), but this large wall of sandstone, a couple of hundred metres out to sea looked pretty good as the sun pierced its way through a gap in the sky and lit it up against the greens and blues that surrounded it. It’s just a shame that after this episode, my filter choices became a bit more limited and I spent most of the rest of the trip improvising with a three stop and a beaten up polariser that I really should have replaced some time ago.
Despite the irritation caused by damaging the filter that goes everywhere with me, one thing was already abundantly clear. This isn’t a place that’s immediately synonymous with dramatic landscapes such as Iceland, the Faroes, Lofoten or Madeira. But there are images waiting to be found all over the island by those who look for them. Sea stacks, abandoned beaches, quiet coastal inlets, a sea arch, olive groves and huge inland caves. Even a wetland reserve. And lighthouses of course. If you’re in the right place at sunset, the Tramuntana mountains of Majorca come into play too. Above anything else, this island made me wonder about all the other places that go under the tog’s radar. I didn’t come to Menorca expecting a landscape photographer’s paradise. We were here for a holiday - three weeks in the warm sunshine as the mercury began to drop at home. But it’s pretty good you know. You could easily come here on a photography trip if you don’t mind a bit of a walk now and again. And if you bring some spare filters for when one of them makes a sudden bid for freedom on a stony beach.
A Peaceful Weekend at My Summer House:
Sometimes all we need is nature, sports, and a peaceful environment! I dedicated this weekend to myself and relaxed at my summer house. This weekend was like therapy for me. I enjoyed canoeing on the water, then I jumped into the cool waters and experienced the healing power of sports 🏊♀️. All of this purified my soul and body. Give yourself breaks like this too, believe me, it's worth it!.
You can see information about my outfit my blog.
World's first steam powered clock
The insides of this clock is where the magic begins....
Built in 1977. Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 to solve the issue of a steam vent in a popular sidewalk for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver. Owned by the City of Vancouver, BC Canada
The steam clock's plaque reads:
THE GASTOWN STEAM CLOCK
Designed and built by
Raymond L. Saunders
Horologist
The world's first steam powered clock has been created for the enjoyment of everyone. The live steam winds the weights and blows the whistles. Every 4.5 minutes one steel weight will travel by steam power to the top of the clock. The gravity driven "falling ball" drive was 'engineered' by Douglas L. Smith. Each quarter hour the clock will sound the Westminster Chimes. The large whistle will sound once on the hour. The steam is supplied by the underground system of Central Heat Distributor's Limited. The component parts cost $42,000 and the clock weighs over two tons.
A few years ago the clock was refit and is not entirely steam powered. It also has three small electric motors to help operate two internal fans, one of which blows the steam out the top, and another that controls the valves that play the tunes on the five steam whistles mounted atop the clock case.
The large central whistle, which was taken off the CPR steam tug Naramata, counts off the full hours while the four auxiliary whistles chime the Westminster Quarters every quarter hour. The number of chimes matches the number of quarter hours that have passed.
Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the creation of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Currently, it is a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest end of Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.
Wikipedia and various other online sites.
*Please note : Information has not been verified accurate
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Thanks so much for comments and visits
~Christie
Last year, Japan experienced a series of major earthquakes and airplane accidents over the New Year period.
Then, at the end of the year, I was informed that the wife of my best friend since the first grade of elementary school, who shares the same birthday as me, has stage 4 lymphoma, and I continue to feel anxious even after the New Year.
Furthermore, the effects of climate change are becoming more and more noticeable, and as a member of the generation that caused it, this New Year is a sobering time for me.
Thank you so much for "on Explore".
I made my "on Explore" album.
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We (again) experienced a very wet and wintry blast here in Auckland yesterday. It's definitely that time a year. We defied the conditions and went for a windy walk along the waterfront. I brought the camera as you never know what you can find. I've passed this building hundreds of times but now noticed it in a new light (literally) last night. Nice to be surprised in one's own 'hood. Everything is so familiar but seeing things differently can be very healthy. Nice.
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"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea." - Ovid
As in previous years, until the end of the month, I'll bring up my best 2016 images.
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À semelhança de anos anteriores e até ao fim do mês irei fazer subir as melhores imagens de 2016.
© Rui Almeida 2016 | All rights reserved.
Skylight and the reflections it cast, appeared to make a circle of light on and above this beautiful mountain lake.
Bridge Lake is an unincorporated recreational community located at the eastern end of Bridge Lake in the Interlakes District of the South Cariboo region of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its centre is the small Bridge Lake General Store. Wikipedia
Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.
Stay Healthy
~Christie
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Famous Hats or infamous ones, I am happy I never experienced one of these, I survived class room humiliation though, this was found at a Pioneer Village.
So far, we have experienced some amazing outback landscapes, but I must say, the Kanku-Breakaways NP are spectacular.
The colours and the light we witnessed just glowed, it absorbed you into its magic grip. Powerful stuff.
Kanku-Break-aways Con-ser-va-tion Park cov-ers almost 15,000 hectares fea-tur-ing majes-tic arid scenery.
The area is home to almost 60 native flo-ra species includ-ing aca-cias, mallee and ere-mophil-ia. It is also home to a vari-ety of wildlife, includ-ing red kan-ga-roos, euro, echid-na, numer-ous bird species and the fat-tailed dun-nart (a mouse-like marsupial).
The Kanku-Break-aways Con-ser-va-tion Park forms part of the tra-di-tion-al coun-try of the Antakir-in-ja Matun-t-jara Yankun-yt-jat-jara peo-ple. It is owned by Antakir-in-ja Matu-Yankun-yt-jat-jara Abo-rig-i-nal Cor-po-ra-tion (AMY-AC). The park is under a unique co-man-age-ment agree-ment between the AMY-AC, Dis-trict Coun-cil of Coober Pedy and Depart-ment for Envi-ron-ment and Water (DEW).
California experienced extreme "king" tides recently. This has allowed for exploration along the coast that is usually inaccessible except at very low tides. When visiting my Dad for Thanksgiving, I walked on the sand from Carpinteria to Rincon and back which took about 3 hours which left my feet sore but as you can see, it was worth it!
Sony a7r FE 28mm
3 Shot panoramic resulting in an 84 MP image.
Probably the best night time thunderstorm I experienced during my three and a half year stay in Romania.
Elevated supercells moved eastward over Transylvania with an awsome CG barrage.
When I heard thunder, I jumped out of my bed and started taking photographs from the entrance of my greenhouse building.
Unfortunately I had the settings wrong from my last photography, so the lightning bolt is over-exposed.
I think f/13 was okay with lightning this close, but 1600 ISO is just weird.....
experienced at Stink Beach, it came quickly and stayed for a while and then left everything clean and refreshed.
listening to a song I had forgotten sung by John Sebastien at Woodstock - "Darling Be Home Soon"
love the lines -" A quarter of my life is almost past
I think I've come to see myself at last"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBXL7FaPod4
about the song :
www.songfacts.com/facts/the-lovin-spoonful/darling-be-hom...
Still Experienced XL Band - Jazzit Musik Club Salzburg, 17.09.2020
www.jazzfoto.at/konzertfotos20/still_experienced_xl_band/...
Besetzung
Chris Haller: guitar, voc
Peter Guschelbauer: keys, voc
Andreas Szelegowitz: drums
Jürgen Haider: sax
Charly Schmid: sax
Georg Schwantner: sax
Stefan Fellner: trumpet
Gerald Silber: trumpet
Alois Eberl: trombone
Melbourne has experienced a wonderful Indian summer this year, and as a result, not only are the Autumnal colours starting to appear, but there are still plenty of beautiful blooms.
I spotted these "Red Cherry" French Marigolds on a walk. They stood out against their green backdrop with their showy red and orange petals.
Tagetes is a genus of annual or perennial, mostly herbaceous plants in the sunflower family Asteraceae. They are among several groups of plants known in English as marigolds.
Still Experienced XL Band - Jazzit Musik Club Salzburg, 17.09.2020
www.jazzfoto.at/konzertfotos20/still_experienced_xl_band/...
Besetzung
Chris Haller: guitar, voc
Peter Guschelbauer: keys, voc
Andreas Szelegowitz: drums
Jürgen Haider: sax
Charly Schmid: sax
Georg Schwantner: sax
Stefan Fellner: trumpet
Gerald Silber: trumpet
Alois Eberl: trombone
We experienced a snow event this morning at Bryce Canyon NP. At over 8,000 feet elevation it happens sometimes in May. The snow was wet and sloppy but it still made the canyon look lovely.
Happy Fence Friday!
Still Experienced XL Band - Jazzit Musik Club Salzburg, 17.09.2020
www.jazzfoto.at/konzertfotos20/still_experienced_xl_band/...
Besetzung
Chris Haller: guitar, voc
Peter Guschelbauer: keys, voc
Andreas Szelegowitz: drums
Jürgen Haider: sax
Charly Schmid: sax
Georg Schwantner: sax
Stefan Fellner: trumpet
Gerald Silber: trumpet
Alois Eberl: trombone
Well I experienced my first hard drive failure, nerve racking to say the least. Glad I had a good backup!!!!! This image was taken last week. I think it is somewhat unique due to the extremes in the lighting of the scene..... Thanks for your comments and such, have a great week!
The sunrise must be experienced and enjoyed. For now, I prefer them in solitude. This is an already cold dawn with a sky that is clean , even too clean with no movement. To create atmosphere I used a filter. I had a green filter in my bag ( why not anything else? I didn’t have one) and I took these three photos by moving around to create a composition.
Camera Polaroid One Step Plus / I-type color film / green filter
Roidweek 21 day 3
This camera,Standard- Leica,
experienced the Olympic-Summer-Games 1936 !
A present of an old Berlin photographer.
Sunset reflections in an old boat.
Have a great week end everyone
(I have just returned from an amazing photo holiday experience in Essaouira, which is on the Western/Atlantic shores of Morocco. The holidays are run by experienced Photographer and teacher Darren Lewey-here is a link to his website, imagesinthesun.com ) and students gallery, including my own :) essaouiraimages.viewbook.com
Greater Vancouver had experienced a week of wet weather with some really strong winds, finally we had some sun yesterday. I was in Steveston Richmond strolling in the Britannia Shipyard area (see other related photos:) and was pleasantly surprised to find these twin wild flowers still in very good "conditions", they looked bright and healthy! It was still very windy at the time of shooting the little flowers were shaking in all possible directions, almost like dancing to the wind!
experienced in my bedroom four year ago today, I licked my hand and I will tell you that rainbows do not taste like rainbow ice cream :)
And experienced photographer helps the newbee
The basalt tuff is usually greyish, brownish, but in the hot spots move around boiling and transforming the tuff, giving it similar colours as yellow to orange tored ryolit
Experienced a wonderful sunset at this place a few weeks ago, and decided to see how this composition would look like with the last golden light of the day! I quite like it, and hope you do as well☀️
anyone who's experienced a dream state during their functioning, waking hours knows what i'm talking about. it's the inability to distinguish conscious processing of the world around you from information that originates in the dream level of your brain. you know where you are, you know who you are but you can't tell if you're thinking memories, fiction or non-fiction. the episodes i've had last at least an hour, sometimes more. all except the last one when i was about to get on a horse and i managed to make it go away. i've gone in for extensive testing and the doctor could only conclude "dejavu". i'd like to end this spiel on a poetic note but would rather ask anyone who's experienced this to leave a comment. acid trips don't count!
PS there's a sliver moon face in this shot, must be a sign. also, the bubbleness came from a passenger seat shot where i aimed the camera at the floor and this magic popped up. light is amazing.
Hell must be experienced
A world unique has been opened in the Czech Republic - HELL, which has no analogues in Europe or anywhere else in the world. You can find it near Hlinsko in Bohemia in the village Čertovina. The exceptional structure reaches a depth of 12 meters below the ground, where there are hundreds of meters of corridors and caves, and then the sky is eight meters.
The building resembles a giant overturned ship 65 meters long and 14 meters wide. A legend is attached to it, which says that in 666 devils sailed on hellships and searched for sinful souls. One night, however, they were caught in a violent storm and the whole ship turned upside down. Lucifer took his huge pitchfork, stabbed it directly in front of the bow of the overturned ship, and said, "Hell will never go to heaven!" He ordered all the furriers to kick and dig until they dug their HELL. And sinful souls in the earthly world who were not afraid to settle nearby called this place Devil's.
Sights, tactile experiences, smells—all are experienced inside the mind alone. None are “out there” except by us having named them. Everything we see, hear and touch is the direct interaction of energy and mind. Anything that we do not observe directly exists only as a haze of probability. “Nothing exists until it is observed.” ~ John Wheeler
Shingle Street is always a good sight, but is it there when I'm not there to witness it?
Melbourne has experienced a wonderful Indian summer this year, and as a result, not only are the Autumnal colours starting to appear, but there are still plenty of beautiful blooms.
This "Edna Butler" camellia sasanqua caught my eye on a recent walk on a sunny day.
"Edna Butler" was introduced in 1966. A sasanqua of strong vertical growth, it has often been used as a dense, blooming hedge. It has large semi-double, soft pink, waved and crinkled petals often including a few petaloids. In this case it was blooming as part of a dense hedge.
Mkinvarstveri is the peak, which attracts attention among every kind of persons. You don’t need to be a mountaineer, or climber, to stand your foot on that majestic peak. Everyone can conquer Mkinvarstveri, if there are enough desire, effort, right time and essential equipment, and of course, experienced team.
Let’s start with the technical details: Mkinvartsveri is situated on the border of Kazbegi municipality, in Khokh Range. According to many different sources, it is 5033 meters in the sea level. Supposedly, in Winter as the snow covers the mountain, it “becomes” higher. From Mkinvartsveri descends several glaciers: Suatisi, Mna, Ortsveri, Devdaraki and others. From here outflows the river Tergi. Mkinvartsveri is the third highest glacier in Georgia, it is just 150 meters lower, than the highest point- Shkhara in the nation of Georgia.
The summit is covered with snow constantly, does not matter, if it’s Summer or Winter. Here you will come across boundless crevasses, which, unfortunately, absorbed lives of many people. You can get there at any time, but in Winter and Spring it is an extremely dangereuses zone, as there are many avalanches here. Also, in Winter the temperature is sharply low, and one needs special preparation and equipment. For those, who can’t dare to come against such complexity, should get there in the half of Summer, till the last days of September. This is the best time for Mkinvartsveri. During this period the sun shines constantly on those cold slopes of Mkinvartsveri. It is the reason, why snow melts down, so it’s easier to walk and also, it becomes less risky. In the first half of September, the snow reaches the lowest stage, and the risk of falling in crevice is minimal, as the main problem- snow covered crevices are rare at this time. Also, the rain and windstorm “visits” the bride of the ravine more seldom. So, most of the tourists prefer to get there during this period- the beginning of September.
But, reaching for the peak of Mkinvartsveri is not easy at all. You should be really very serious. It’s a sad story, but I have to remind you, that many people, inexperienced, as well as experienced ones, left their lives here, on its white slopes. The biggest enemy here is holes/crevasses, which you can’t notice while walking on the snow, and you never know, when it opens the doors of his heart and cuddle you forever. To avoid such things, hikers use special ropes, where is tied every person of the team. They are walking some distance away from each other, as if one of them falls through the hole, others will be able to rescue the unlucky one. During that dangerous journey you will meet many signs, which warns you not to walk alone, as the Mkinvartsveri “does not like” alone souls, and advise us to walk with our team, roped (!). Another very serious hazard thing is the thunder! Can you believe it? Well, here many lives have been vanished because of thunder. During bad weather, the heavenly powers send affluent energies to the Bride the range. So, if you see, that there are clouds gathering, or it’s about to start raining soon, don’t take a step forward and just go back, somewhere in a safe place. Don’t hurry up! The Bride of the ravine is not going elsewhere. So, just wait for the spectacular, perfect time, chose the best weather, the group, its members and try to avoid the bad things, which you can.
As for the equipment, to walk there, you must have: warm and waterproof jacket, trousers, gloves, special, mountain shoes, mountain-climbers girdle, crampon (climbing iron to ice), adze (walking stick with sharp steel tip for ice-picking), rope and carbine. These equipment one can hire in Kazbegi, or at Meteo Station.