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Attention: this had been planned as a really big post, so I will edit it within three days (others' max is 1h).
The journey was excellent! Photos can be obtained from vkontakte.ru and hehehe.ath.cx/qwerty.7z.
Thanks to the Google Earth team for the possibility of viewing our route.
So, here's a short chronology:
1'st day (18'th Aug):
Vanya and I took the bikes and went to Sennaya. There we were made to disassemble them and pack into kinda big parcels, so we wasted 45 minutes and missed the electric train to the place we decided to go to.
At the Ladozhky railway station we met Nadya and bought the tickets for the train to Petrozavodsk. There were only tickets for tomorrow, so we decided to spend the free time at Koltushi village's lake (59,9358; 30,6561), which we reached in the evening.
2'nd day:
Dispite of our decision to sleep and wake up around 6:30, we made a campfire and talked all the night (rather remarkable, considering my yesterday-evening wakening). Next, we went to the station and entrained. Never ever try to travel on intercity trains with bikes! We had 3 upper seats, which took our luggage, and some good time disassembling, reassemling and moving our bikes across the full train, so we spent almost all our time sitting on the garbage container. Thanks to Vanya, we had a good boric-'antiscorbutic-vitamin'-acid-echanted tea and vomit. We decided we were like a very good entertainment for the passengers and conductors. That was fun, really.
Next, we went downstream the Lososenka river to the Onezhskoye lake. Unfortunately, we couldn't get any access to the water.
So went out of town and made a camp... in the forest park near some animals' graves (61,750; 34,447). During the cold night I understood my extemporaneity and stupidity about my equipment. But stuff like this was expected: this was my first outing.
3'rd day:
Althrough, the sleep was wonderful (as for me). There were no problems with food and water: we found a kind of spring and a shop near the camp.
The day was spent to travel by not-so-good roads to the upper Lososinka (Vanya hoped to fish). During the trip we made a wrong turn and visited a cool big abandoned factory. We'd walked in, but bikes and evil geezer encumbered us, so we could make just a few photos. I'd really love to creep in there.
Next way lied through Pticefabrika village. We didn't find any confirmation to this name.
In the end, we tired and stopped at a swampy bank. Due to the endless-like rain we can't make any kind of campfire, so we had to burn a stinky anti-midge spiral-shaped stuff. Vanya and Nadya got some spue-fun (perhaps to catch up with me, vomited in the train).
4'th day:
Teh sleep was rather good. Now I understand why do I sleep so much at home, opposed to 6h there. During the trip I understood what was meant about roads. Asphalt was ~75% broken, the corrugations (30cm avg depth) was filled with water, the road passed through the annoyingly frequent hills. In the end, we reached the Orzega settlement and decided to move to the Svir' river (due to existence of the direct elektrichka). In the evening we went to the fancy settlement Nikol'sky and made a camp beside the huts due to poorly accessible/woody bank of Svir'. We couldn't get any reasonable fire, so the stinky stuff saved us again.
5'th day:
The initial our decision was about to walk/fish all day long and next day go home, but after a long walk around the bank (that was really fun: we found a good beach and an abandoned shipyard) the endless rain continued and we concluded it's better to move out today.
At 6'pm we appeared at the station. That was awfully stupid, we had to wait 10h for the train to come, but it was dangerous to move in the dark, especially on Vanya's broken bike. I couldn't fall asleep, so after 23 the time was spend to sad'n'lone analysis of the trip and everything.
6'th day:
We bought the tickets and at 4:30 got to the train. Luckily, I could sleep for 3h or so on Vanya and Nadya's warm knees. When we arrived to the Ladozhky station we were asked to buy 3x12RUR-priced luggage tickets for our bikes, but instead of ~1h standing in a ticket-queue we just jumped off the station and evaded the pay-gates (I regreted 3x360RUR for the tickets: we didn't meet any controllers in the train). The remaining part of the day was spent to the dinner at Nadya's, fixing Vanya's bike and moving to my place.
I have hoped to write more, but the universal laziness and diffidence about my English stops me.
Despite of all the shit, that was fun. Wanna moar!
There was a bunch of funny quotes, but I forgot them. Sadly.
Now I'm definitely (95%) going to travel to Krasnodar by the elektrichkas (Wikipedia said it's an unique thing, they exist only in ex-USSR). Collecting people. Hope Vanya and Nadya will. I dunno anybody crazier. But they's craziness is insufficient for me.
I afraid (fear!) I'll never find any affined soul.
