Where did the name of the takmak rock come from? Sunday Pillars

1. Our route
At the very beginning of the route, Takmak met us, although he was not the first destination of our trip. But it can be clearly seen already when approaching the reserve, and indeed, it can be seen even from the city. At an abandoned quarry, we stopped to watch how climbers train on the ice wall, which they specially flooded and equipped this year. Recently, a competition was held, so the ice on the wall is covered with blue and red lines marking the tracks.
The ascent to the Chinese wall was, albeit steep, but completely surmountable. People on ice floes were coming down to meet us. This is always the case in the Takmakovsky district: it is easier to descend from these steep mountains while sitting on the ice than standing on your feet, anyway, while standing, you risk suddenly finding yourself in a sitting position. The wind blew up at the Chinese wall, we even froze a little. We walked around the perimeter wall and ran down into the valley of the Mokhovaya stream, protected from the wind by the slopes of the mountains and the forest.
We had to climb to Takmak rock, which turned out to be not as easy as climbing the Chinese wall. The slope of the mountain is steeper here, the snow melted in places, then froze and turned into an ice crust. Small areas where it was required to climb the rocks proved to be more difficult than expected due to the crust of ice that covered the rocks. But we, insuring each other, passed them without problems. After looking at the city from the Takmak height, we went to the top of the neighboring mountain, where the upper station of the ski cable car is located. Satisfied and tired, with a sense of accomplishment, we lounged on the chairs of the cable car, which took us down to the city.

2. Entrance to the reserve

3. Open pit with ice wall

4. Waiting

5. Climb to the Chinese wall

6. At the Chinese wall

7. At the Chinese wall

8. At Takmak's

9. At Takmak's

10. Trekking between the rocks of the Takmakovskaya group. The Berkut rock in the background.

11. Rocks of the Takmakov group

12. Climbing the slope at Takmak

13. Passage between Takmak and the upper station of the cable car. In the background is Takmak.

14. Top view from the cable car

The Parabola rock is better known as the Brothers. This amazing place is 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. Between the rocks, a sharp ridge runs a clear line resembling a parabola.

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

Rock "Takmak"

The rock massif "Takmak" is a part of the state reserve "Stolby". 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 Takmak summit 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 Takmaku through ski resort"Bobrovy Log", if you walk along the chair-lift, starting in the Bazaikha valley.

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: lack of tourist infrastructure, places for 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) rise, then no further difficulties are foreseen. 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, where 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 get wet).

Clothes will play an important role in this walk. Everything interesting objects located in such a way 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 will most likely 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, look at 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 literally 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 the finishing of the Communal Bridge, and the 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 in this place, representatives of the mountaineering federation have been pouring an ice "icicle" - 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 shoots around it, and the kids happily ride 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 it's still not very comfortable, because at this time tourists will constantly run 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 the ascent, 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 were 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 - climbing 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

Route plans

The gate of the "Eastern Entrance" to the reserve

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

Climbing benches and trail markings in the trees

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 different-sized stones of which it once consisted are scattered at the foot. The southern part of the cliff is very beautiful, from here there is a beautiful view of Takmak. Only to climb the stones covered with snow must be very careful 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 Sparrow rock massif

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, at the place where the wooden bridges end, choose the right trail that runs along the mountain (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 summer, you have to overcome a small stream, and in winter, slippery ice is difficult.

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

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, as 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 get out on the "Old Chinese path" - as it is marked on the maps, leading along the ridges of the 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 Sparrows

Chinese wall from the observation deck under Vorobushki

Takmak overlooking the city after sunset

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 only works to climb to the Ziprider attraction. All the rest ride K1 in the summer.

I have a special relationship with the cable cars. I'm terribly afraid of them, so I ride them more often than ordinary people... In Rosa Khutor I never made it 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 is ascent and descent - 280 rubles for an adult ticket and 170 for a child.

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 journey is not long and in one direction only lasts 10 minutes, 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 long route... You can come from Stolby along the same path, but you will not be allowed on the cable car without a ticket, you will have to go down on foot. I have never gone here, perhaps in the future I will decide:

We return back to the cable car station. 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, but 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:

Not tall in appearance, but for rock climbing it is difficult to say. 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, and beautiful photos are obtained there:

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.