And once again I'm waiting for report from binadamu and post next part of photos from summer trip to Rybachy. This photos taken on Kola Peninsula on our way north from Polar Circle, through Murmansk and up to the Zapadnaya Litsa River, near famous Death Valley (Valey of Honour).

Zapadnaya Litsa part takes us a few days of heavy offroading. The only roads there are ones build by german military at the days of stalemate siege operation, some of them become a river bed or part of the swamp. The winch, Highlift jack and offroad wheels is a must for the road, as good protection (carter, gearbox, etc). The road could be a bit easier if I have a snorkel, because there was a great deal of crossing the river fords.

Polar Circle

Lion and a fish


Leet km from St. Petersburg :P


Murmansk, WW2 monument for defenders of Arctic


The beginning of our journey throug Zapadnaya Litsa,
me guiding the winching of Koshak and Polar the dragon at navigator's seat looking puzzled ^.^


That was a bridge... at least 50 years ago, the north nature could preserve things well, but not for such long time




forest-tundra at night
(around 23:40 PM, it's the end of the polar day :P)...


...and at the morning


Reindeer moss, so soft to walk with bare paws




It was the northenest part where I take the plunge to have a swim :P








Yes, this is a road. At least it was few decades ago.
And yes, the photo taken after I drove through it.




Sometimes in the wild we met WW2 monuments set by a search parties


Old gun positions


Another road...


When we suspected the water could be deeper than it seems we measured water level
manually before crossing.
(Koshak without snorkel have the treshold of about ~0.8 meters of water to cross, higher
would be too dangerous, its engine have an air intake at about 0.9 meters high from the ground)






Here and there we met the old iron. Barbed wire, shot gun cartridges
(I even take 40mm spent cartridge case with me :P), rusted fuel cans...


Even winch can't help when there is nothing solid enough to take a hold, this time we has to
bury a rail from hi-lift jack to winch us out.




binadamu and Polar the dragon...


...and where they stood.