It is our old deserved
tent made from canvas. It wouldn't be a good idea to take it to the mountain
journey or to use it on Subpolar Urals. But it fits well for a stroll in
Moscow neighborhood. |
We decided to meet
that 8 March Holiday (the international women's day) in the forest. I was
planning to lead my first mountains group in that coming summer and wanted
to make a "field trial" before. As you see, they're talking about something
funny here. We are sitting by the campfire near the Tourist village, which
is located on the Savelovskaya railroad. |
This is the duet of
my sister Anya and her husband Igor. The most important thing was always
to prevent Vitalik Guberin from making a trio. Being the very experienced
tourist-kayaker, he didn't have a very good ear. But what a great tree
we hacked down! Actually, we could only saw off two pieces of it. This
pine was fallen down very professionally: it landed near the camping fire,
although it had wicked intent to break our tent. |
It's necessary for
Michael Akinfin to warm his legs. We got a really good drink of vodka and
wheat hooch yesterday to celebrate the women's day and Akinfin sang half
of night after it with such a zeal that even frostbitten his toes a little
bit. |
Now we are much more
sedate. Valya has couple of children (or maybe three of them?), Igor has
two sons, Vitalik Guberin became exemplary husband (suddenly) and completed
the University also, Michael Akinfin together with his wife are now singers
in a church chorus. And the only person who spends his days in the US for
some reason is me. Probably, for doing these Web pages (?). |
15 miles more and
we would reach our destination, which was the Yaroslavskya railroad. |
There are wonderful
sceneries in the beginning of springtime. In the Moscow area a winter means
real winter; the spring is a real genuine spring - the time, when snow
is melting and it's getting warmer, rather than having temperature in 90°F
and humid stuffy air, which is pretty common for Maryland. |
