Chair-lift, Krasnoyarsk - "Cable car, Takmak rock and mountains covered with haze from forest fires." Sunday Pillars

How to get there

You can get to the Eastern entrance to the Stolby reserve either by car or by bus No. 37 to the stop “Pos. Bazaikha ".

Address: border of Krasnoyarsk and Berezovsky district
Expenses: 44 rubles when traveling by bus, 270 rubles - the cost of a lift, gasoline 15 rubles (30 km round trip from the city center)
Intended audience: amateurs active rest
Recommended season: all year round
pros: outdoor recreation, cardio training
Minuses: absence tourism infrastructure, places of food and heating, distance from the bus stop, a small number of parking spaces

If you chose the first option, then follow the street. Bazayskaya past residential buildings to the abandoned children's camp rest, behind which there will be a clearly visible turn with an exit from the asphalt road. If your car is able to overcome a small (but most often rather slippery in winter) climb, then no further difficulties are expected. However, there are not very many parking spaces at the end of the road, so you should be prepared that the car will have to be left on the side of the road.

The second option, on the one hand, is more convenient, because you do not have to think about where to leave the car, and will allow you to go more interesting route... But, on the other hand, he will add to the walk, at least, an extra 2.5 km - that is how much you have to walk from the Pos. Bazaikha "to the Granite quarry, in which there are" gates "marking the Eastern entrance.

How to get to the quarry by car

Travel by bus # 37 to the stop of the village. Bazaikha

Walking part of the walk from a stop to a granite quarry

On the way, you can admire the Red Ridge - one of the rocks of the Torgashinsky ridge

What to bring and how to dress

Keep in mind that the East entrance to Pillars has no infrastructure at all! Therefore, when going for a walk to this place, be sure to take with you a snack for the whole day, tea in a thermos, and in winter, stock up on "reserve" mittens and warm socks (instead of those that will definitely get wet).

Clothes will play an important role in this walk. Everything interesting objects located so that you will have to climb to them along steep slopes.

Therefore, a prerequisite for our trip is comfortable shoes with non-slip soles! The rest of the clothes should be warm enough: first, during the climb, you will definitely be hot, and then you will get to the top of the mountain, where the wind will quickly cool your ardor.

What to see

It is important to remember that you most likely will not be able to get around all the sights of the Takmakovsky district of the reserve at one time - all the ascents have a height difference of about 300 meters and the length of the path is about 2 km. Therefore, we have divided the story into several parts - according to the number of attractions. Read, see the photos and feel free to choose any of them - thanks to the map attached at the end, you can go through each.

Takmak Massif from the East Entrance Gate

Granite quarry

For novice travelers, who are not yet ready to go deep into the "Stolby", there is an opportunity to take a very short walk and hold a photo session just 200 meters from the parking lot.

For more than 100 years, small stones with funny name Kizyams, but their blew up and sawed for construction railway bridge through the Yenisei. In the 60s of the XX century, granite was again required for finishing the Communal Bridge, and development continued under the rock mass of Ermak - this is how the Granite Quarry appeared.

In the 90s, the development of the quarry was completely stopped, the stones began to gradually overgrow with forest. Several years ago, as part of the reclamation of the quarry, the "extra" stones that blocked the path were removed.

For two years now, representatives of the mountaineering federation have been pouring an ice "icicle" in this place - an almost vertical wall of ice, on which they conduct trainings before difficult ice ascents and organize competitions.

The townspeople also fell in love with the "icicle" - they arrange photo sessions around it, and the kids enjoy riding on the ice at the foot.

You can take a break from skiing and have a bite to eat in a small gazebo or on benches, but this is still not very comfortable, because at this time tourists will constantly ply past you who decide to take a more distant walk.

General view of the quarry

Rock Ermak

The ascent to Ermak begins from the parking lot - you need to look for an exit to the trail in front of a house fenced with a high fence.

The ascent is steep enough, but not too long - it will take even an unprepared person half an hour at the slowest pace. Be prepared for the fact that from time to time you will come across those who climbed to the rocks earlier and chose the high-speed descent option at the "fifth point". Therefore, immediately choose a snowy shoulder for climbing, although loud laughter and shouts will surely warn you about the approach of those descending.

The ascent ends in a huge blockage - a large number of trees on the slope have been uprooted and piled on top of each other. These are the consequences of a hurricane that swept over this place in the 90s.

A few more tens of meters through the forest and you are already near the cliff. Ermak - these are three peaks of different heights and degrees of difficulty of the ascent. The lightest and lowest of them is located farthest from the exit to the clearing. It offers a beautiful view of Takmak, you can see the road leading to the quarry, as well as part of the Bazaikha village.

From the first peak (the second most difficult and requiring certain climbing skills) a view of the city opens up. But in winter it is better to look at Takmak from a small isthmus between the first and second peaks - the ascent there is not difficult, the height is no more than two meters, and the rock is visible in the same way as from the top.

If you are lucky and you come here in calm weather, then be sure to go to the "chair" - a stump from an old pine tree with branches spread in different directions. This stump stands at the very top of the slope, turned towards the rock mass of Vorobushka and the Chinese wall. So from here you can just admire the boundless taiga, take interesting photos, have a snack and relax before returning home.

Ascent to Ermak

He uprooted most of the trees

From the third, lowest peak of Ermak, a view of Takmak opens

Chinese wall

The easiest path from the Granite Quarry leads to the Chinese Wall. Thanks to the appearance of wooden bridges on the trails in the reserve, a walk along the Moss Creek became accessible to everyone, including many mothers with strollers. True, they pass only a gentle section and turn back at the beginning of the ascent.

The trail starts from the symbolic "gate" of the Eastern entrance to the reserve and goes first along the stream, and then turns to the left into the ravine, where it begins a leisurely ascent. It is very difficult to get lost on it- from the very gate, the path is marked with red marks on the trees, and with the beginning of the ascent it is also marked with numerous benches. The trail goes to the very beginning of the rock, which stretches from north to south for 300 meters. Northern part the cliffs are high, towering 50 meters vertically above the heads of tourists. Here you can relax in a small gazebo, created from improvised material and leaf through an album listing all the rocky routes.

Route plans

The gate of the "Eastern Entrance" to the reserve

Thanks to the appearance of wooden bridges on the trails in the reserve, a walk along the Moss Creek became accessible to everyone

Climbing benches and tree trail markings

Chinese wall at the trail exit point

The Chinese wall is a sports rock. A huge number of climbing routes of varying difficulty have been laid along it. Therefore, you will definitely be able to watch how athletes climb the rocks, as well as try your hand, but only under the supervision of an experienced instructor.

In any case, we strongly not recommend.

In the southern part, the rock is badly destroyed, and the various-sized stones of which it once consisted are scattered at the foot. South part the cliffs are very beautiful, a beautiful view of Takmak opens from here. Only you need to climb the stones covered with snow very carefully so as not to get completely unnecessary injury.

The southern part of the Chinese wall

"Kurumnik" at the foot of the cliff

View towards Takmak from the top of the talus

View of the rocky massif Sparrow

View towards the Torgashinsky ridge

Sparrows

The Vorobushka rock massif consists of the Tsypa, Zhaba and Zhavoronok rocks. The ascent to it from the Moss Brook is the most difficult and steepest of all in the area. In order to get on the trail to Sparrows, you need to choose the right trail that runs along the mountain at the place where the wooden bridges end (while the left one, marked with red marks, goes to the Chinese wall). The turn from it to the ascent is marked with a sign warning about the rules of conduct in the reserve. In the summer, you have to overcome a small trickle, and in winter, slippery ice is difficult.

During the ascent, there is not much to look at - from time to time behind, among the trees, Takmak will appear, and to the left you can see either Ermak or Chinese Wall, but you will have no time to consider them. Almost at the very top of the ascent (if you have enough perseverance to overcome it), the trail will lead you to the rocks, which offer an excellent view of Takmak and the Chinese wall, which looks like a wall cut from the top.

This view is especially beautiful at sunset, when the rocks are illuminated by the setting sun, and behind them the evening Krasnoyarsk lights up its lights.

The ascent upward from this site becomes even more difficult and cool, and rests against a small rocky wall with an exit directly under the rocks. On our journey, it was at this place that we decided to stop, since climbing the snow-covered slippery stones was not very comfortable.

However, all these complications can be avoided by going a little longer, but simple way(on the map at the end of the article, this route is marked in yellow). Climbing up to the Chinese wall, you can climb the "kurumnik" (stone placers) to the very end of the wall and go to the "Old chinese trail"- so it is marked on the maps, leading along the ridges of mountains without serious descents and ascents. The path is quite long, but it will be much faster and more pleasant to go through it than to climb a steep mountain.

Ermak from the ascent to the Sparrows

Chinese wall from the observation deck under Vorobushki

Takmak overlooking the city after sunset

Autumn is the most the best time in order to go to the Pillars. There are no ticks anymore, and the sun does not bake so much, and autumn colors will certainly delight the eye. On weekends, there are real traffic jams on the climbs to the popular pillars. Therefore, we went on a weekday, when there are much fewer people. And a slightly unusual route.

To begin with, a little about the reserve, if suddenly someone has not heard about it.

Founded in 1925 at the initiative of the city's residents to preserve natural complexes around picturesque syenite outliers - "pillars". At present, its area is 47154 hectares. It is located on the northwestern spurs of the Eastern Sayan bordering the Central Siberian plateau. Part of the reserve territorially belongs to Krasnoyarsk. Although in reality, only a small part is accessible to tourists. 90% of the territory of Stolby is a zone of strict conservation regime, the presence of a person there is prohibited.

1. The first point of the hike was the Takmak rock. This rock is clearly visible from almost anywhere in the city. Climbing Takmak is not so easy, and without equipment it is almost impossible at all.

2. But the views of the city can be admired from the site which is located at the foot of the Takmak.

I saw a haze over the city. I wanted to shoot classic views from Takmak, but apparently I will have to do it some other time.

3. In the photo there is the Communal Bridge and the city center, and in the foreground is the residential complex White Rosy under construction.

4. Bazaikha.

5. Campus.

6. Bridgehead. LCD South Coast.

7. This is how Takmak himself looks from the site.

8. From Takmak we go along the path through the Beaver Log and the Enchanted Forest. Last time I went here 2 years ago. I did not think that the improvement of the Stolby would even reach here. They put signs everywhere, now it's hard to get lost :)

9. After an hour and a half walk through the forest, we come to the Pervenets rock.

10. From here you can already see the Central Pillars. What I don't like walking straight down the main road is the continuous uphill. 7 kilometers uphill to the First pillar.

11. Second pillar.

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13. Feathers.

14. Fourth - we go straight to him.

15. This is one of the simplest pillars, you can climb it without any problems holding the camera in one hand.

16. But in itself, I really like this pillar. In general, of course, each pillar is beautiful in its own way.

17. There is a crevice in the middle. It turns out that the pillar has two peaks.

18. At one of the peaks.

19. You can get to the top with many moves. One of the moves is "Balamuty".

20. Stone at the top. How did he get here?

21. View to the southeast towards Takmak.

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23. The first pillar.

24. Takmak. Takmak includes a number of spurs - "Big Berkut", "Mongol" and "Totem" and others. There are even two caves in the rock massif, one of which is located on the sheer cliff wall.

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26. At the top we met a handsome nuthatch.

27. We approach the First pillar.

28. Nearby there is a stone "Elephant". On weekdays, there are not so many people, so no one even tried to climb on it. And on weekends there are often queues. The stone was already so rubbed with shoes that it was not quite easy to climb on it.

29. The First Pillar is probably the most popular among the pillars. There really is where to climb - more than 25 moves lead to the top.

30. Before going up, we walked around it - we remembered the easy passages along which we climbed earlier. Yes, you should go here more often than once a year :)

31. The move we followed turned out to be not the easiest. Periodically, there was a non-illusory opportunity to fall down.

32. But we still got to the top. The sun was already very low above the horizon, which made the colors very interesting.

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34. The second is the highest among the Central pillars (96 meters).

35. Laletino stream runs down the gorge. The main road to Stolby runs along it.

36. Mountains in the sunset rays of the sun.

To walk normally on the pillars, of course, you need to go out in the morning. We had plans to go to the Feathers and the Lion's Gate, but when we went down from the First it was already starting to get dark. So there was a good reason to go here again in the fall. Only perhaps now without a camera.

The Parabola rock is better known as the Brothers. it amazing place located in the Ergakakh mountains, which are part of the Sayan Mountains in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In its shape, it resembles a parabola, which is why this name was attached to it. Its two peaks, standing side by side, were named: Big (or Fat) brother and Thin brother. Big Brother has massive high walls of about 500 meters, and Thin, has a sharp peak, slightly inclined towards its brother. A sharp line is laid between the rocks, resembling a parabola.

Nearby is the Lake of Artists. The Rocky Brothers are part of natural park Ergaki,

Rock "Takmak"

Rock massif "Takmak" is part of state reserve"Pillars". Height - 417 m above the level of the Yenisei River.

This is the only "Stolby" that is perfectly visible from the city and, accordingly, offers a magnificent view of Krasnoyarsk.

Takmak includes a number of spurs that make up a single system. The top of Takmak is made up of "Big and Small Heads". The western part of the slope is called "Bear".

For the first time Takmak was conquered in 1899 by Anastasia Leontievna Kachalova, the first woman in Russia to go in for mountain sports.

Many legends are associated with this mountain. The most popular is about the "king of all Siberia" - the sorcerer Yenisei, the daughters of his glorious Bazaikha and Laletin, and their beloved prince Takmak, who was turned to stone by the formidable ruler for disobedience.

You can get to Takmak through the Bobrovy Log ski complex, if you walk along the chair-lift, starting in the Bazaikha valley.

Hello everyone!

I would like to tell you about the K1 chairlift, which is located in the Bobrovy Log fan park in Krasnoyarsk. There are two cable cars in Bobrovy Log, but K2 works in winter to lift skiers, and in summer it works only to climb to the Ziprider attraction. All the others ride K1 in the summer.

I have a special relationship with the cable cars. I am terribly afraid of them, so I ride them more often than ordinary people. In Rosa Khutor, I never got to the top, at the penultimate change I was left to wait for my people. I didn’t dare to ride there either. But in Krasnoyarsk the cable car is only open, so you have to go (

You can get to "Bobrovy Log" without a car by bus route 37. If you are traveling by car, there is a parking lot. Then you buy a ticket at the box office and go to the cable car. The cost in July 2019 for the ascent and descent is 280 rubles for an adult ticket and 170 for a child ticket.

The entrance to the cable car looks like this:

Place of boarding, insert the ticket into the turnstile and it opens automatically:

And so we are going, I already wrote that I am afraid, so I am driving with my eyes closed)) Fortunately, the path is not long and it only lasts 10 minutes in one direction, which seems to me like an eternity:

At the top you are greeted with a message that you have taken a photo and you can pick it up, the cost of a small photo is 250 rubles. I imagine my face twisted with horror, I didn't even look at this photo. The photo booth is located next to the Vibram bar:

So what to do at the top? There are several options. For example, stay in a bar and not go anywhere. But I don't think anyone is using this option. Moreover, there are excellent catering establishments downstairs.

If you stand facing the "Vibram" there are two ways: to the right and to the left. First, we go right. There is an observation deck to the Stolby reserve. At the entrance to the path, there is a sign with tips for walking:

Then another sign, already with a warning:

And a little about "stolism":

And here is the observation deck itself, quite compact:

Why I will tell you so further. You can see a little bit of the Sparrow's rock:

Further from observation deck you can go to the Pillars. But this is a long route. You can come along the same path from Stolby, but you will not be allowed to the cable car without a ticket, you will have to walk downstairs. I have never gone here, perhaps in the future I will decide:

We go back to the station cable car... Here, by the way, there is a hint of what to do with the routes and the time spent, only the fourth (yellow) route involves the participation of the cable car:

The target of my torment this time was the Takmak rock. We go left:

Here is a view of the city:

For comparison, from the same area, from the Torgashinsky ridge on July 7, 2019, the visibility was as follows:

And now our Krasnoyarsk is covered with smoke from forest fires that are spreading in the north of the region. The city is constantly in this haze, there are days when it is impossible to breathe and the visibility is even lower. Fires are not extinguished, since they are located in control zones (by the way, these zones are determined by the regional authorities). The costs of extinguishing fires in these zones are higher than the damage from fires, so they wait for it to rain on its own.

Rospotrebnadzor salutes us every day that there is no excess of harmful substances in the air. But on the AirVisual website, Krasnoyarsk consistently holds the 1st place in pollution in the world !:

This week the haze reached Novosibirsk, Omsk and Yekaterinburg. After that, they started talking about us at the federal level, but somehow sluggishly. Can you imagine what kind of territory these are Siberia, the Urals plus Transbaikalia is on fire. That is, half of the country is already suffocating, but no one is going to solve the problem. Created a petition, but the sense from it ...:

In general, we are waiting for the saving rain.

At first the road is quite comfortable, there are gazebos on the side, which are rented. There you can fry kebabs, celebrate some kind of event in nature:

At the end of this road, a view of Takmak opens up, but at first a steep descent awaits us:

We go into the gate on which the sign "No entry", on top of the fence is surrounded by barbed wire. Perhaps this is the border of the "Beaver Log". Let's look back, the path traveled:

The descent is small, but steep. My sneakers slipped, there is a lot of gravel. Back then went up much easier than went down

We go to the rock. on the way we try to admire the views:

When we come to Takmak there are options - go directly to the foot of the cliff, or you can first go around along a forest path. We made a detour. Not visible in the photo, but some trees are marked with blue paint so as not to stray from the route. But you need to stop in time, when you see that the end of the rock - wrap it up. The path with the marked trees goes straight ahead, I suppose to the Granite Quarry - the entrance to Takmak not from the side of the cable car:

Seemingly not tall, but for rock climbing it is difficult said. They were able to climb it only 50 years after the conquest of the First Pillar.

There should be a great view here too:

There are boulders nearby, which are easy to climb, there it turns out beautiful photos:

That's all, the trip is over. Let's go down. The roots of trees and stones form a kind of steps, I will not say that it is very easy to go down, but it is possible, especially not so high:

They returned back in the same way as they came. When we got to the lift it started to rain. And I was glad how we managed to get out of the mountains in time. If the road gets wet and slippery, going down / up will be incredibly difficult.

Little people go to Takmak. Basically, people get up, go to the lookout, sit in the bar and come back. And I did this several times. And in vain. I liked the walk to the cliff, it's a pity because of poor visibility I could not see all the beauty of our nature, but what I saw was more than enough. If you go up the cable car, do not be lazy, take a walk to Takmak.