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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Hiking in Таганай

Артём and I went hiking the other day to Taganay national park. It situated near the neighboring town of Златоуст (which happens to be in Europe, BTW!). We had a long and fun day.

We meet at 7:20AM to catch the 8AM train. The whole town was covered in thick fog. Pretty creepy.

The ants in Russian are on steroids, this is a standard ant "hill".

The "stone river" caused by glaciers.


Magic mushrooms (not edible).
Magic Rocks (also not edible).

Stairway to Heaven.

Heaven. Ok, really it's just a great view of the stone river and surrounding mountains. The Ural Mountains the are oldest in the world so they are a bit wore down by weather and time. It's still beautiful landscape though.

Here are some rock slabs thrown down by Zeus himself when he found out how much fun I'm still having in Russia (he's always been the jealous type).