East Понтийские mountains. Equipment, conditions and dangers. The route across Turkey has special features in view of that Turkey is highly above sea level
The route across Turkey conceals in itself a lot of the fascinating
Councils to tourists in Turkey: for this purpose to travel on mountains, the full marching equipment is necessary: waterproof, warm and reliable clothes and footwear, woollen socks, water-repellent trousers or gaiters, satchel, windcheater, tent, kerosene stove and food. It is necessary to grasp with yourself stocks and things for 10-20 % more than it is necessary for passing of this route across Turkey in case you will get stuck on a quantity of days in a dense fog. Pure water can be taken in sources - it here always enough. Most awful that does not exist large-scale, quite good property of district maps, but in books about mountain campaigns it is possible to find rather detailed description of certain more favourite routes. Also the GPS device, in particular its integrated function of measurement of height because in unstable weather criteria ordinary высотометры appear inexact, in particular in Turkey at first October will be useful.
Features of passing of certain routes across Turkey
Tracks in mountains are not designated in any way and not marked, but in certain unclear places there can be piramidka combined from stones, here you precisely will not meet new hotels of Turkey. Without considering ordinary threats which conceal in itself mountains, there are also special dangers. So, for example, passes should be overcome early in the afternoon and it is indispensable to p.m. because later they become covered by a fog or low thunderclouds. One more problem local bulls who attack tents even more often, than the run wild animals represent. In Turkey it is useful for tourists to know and about extensively vserasprostranenny here the Black Sea azalea of which do sadly recognizable hallucinogen divide ball («mad honey»), become the precondition of the acquired diarrhoeia of soldiers of Ksenofon). This azalea contains essential amount of simply flammable juice, capable to be lighted even in purely wettish criteria. This plant is in Turkey everywhere, and local inhabitants consider it as a damnation and root out it without any remorse.
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