{"id":2558,"date":"2016-02-20T13:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T10:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cap-travel.ru\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2018-05-18T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T13:43:03","slug":"kareliya-snegoxody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cap-travel.ru\/en\/blog\/2016\/02\/20\/kareliya-snegoxody\/","title":{"rendered":"A snowmobile expedition to Karelia"},"content":{"rendered":"

And here we go again to seek for some new adventures!<\/b>
\nThe Moscow-Petrozavodsk express train crawled like a green boa through the stone jungle of the capital and disappeared in the damp blackness of a moonless night, and only the sound of tapping the rails was heard. Our winter expedition to Karelia and Murmansk by snowmobiles has begun! Seven members of our team are going to overcome 1,700 km across forests, fields, frozen rivers and lakes of Karelia and finish the route on the Kola Peninsula in eight days. The start is tomorrow at noon, and meanwhile we are sitting in comfortable compartments of the sleeper, having a glass of Scotch single malt whiskey with domestic bacon, telling each other jokes and recalling various funny stories from our previous trips\u2026
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So, the first 200 kilometers of our expedition are behind us.<\/b> 90% of today's route we proceeded along the ice of Lake Onega. It is a huge expanse covered with a thin layer of snow, a kind of endless icy desert.<\/p>\n

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Our main intermediate goal was to visit the famous museum and national reserve on Kizhi Island and the destination took place in a small village called Povenets, not far from Medvezhegorsk. Today we experienced the first problem. Not reaching just a couple of kilometers to the island, one snowmobile broke down. The hefty Arctic Cat refused to move on anymore. The breakdown turned out to be quite serious and it took us several hours to fix it, which knocked us a little out of the schedule.<\/p>\n

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