Big Mountain Time

Well guys and gals, the snow conditions at our yurt spot are awesome! Check out the new photo report right here.

Well finally. We’ve got a stable sunny weather yesterday and went to the 40tribes site to do some ground works. Level the yurt platform and dig a shitter holes Oh yeah, the shitter holes!

The driving up to the site was a bit crazy, because the mud up there is quite wet and there is already a bunch of snow. Yeah! You can already ride some pow places above the site. The upcoming storm will bring much more snow and here you are free to go!

Well, enjoy the time lapse made during our stay up there.

It was a quite rainy morning yesterday. Some snow covered nearby mountains and it feels quite cold now. Need to try some swimming in the lake

This summer was quite positive and full of different adventures over the mountains and other countries. So its gone pretty quick while I was chillin’ with the UNKLE, POMPEYA and Jamiroquai playing in my earbuds. Anyway the autumn is here, the time when you see great sunsets each evening and should take care of apples and sea buckthorn berries, apparently we don’t have anything else growing at our spot this year.

As you remember we had some cooperation with 40tribesbackcountry last season, we are also going to work together in upcoming season. I hope this thing will work for years ahead as it is quite a great experience for coming travelers and especially for locals. (continue reading…)

Skiing and snowboarding at Kyrgyzstan, Karakol

One of the best ski resorts of Kyrgyzstan can be found while driving around Issyk-Kul lake. Karakol ski resort is the most preferable and large ski resort in the Central Asia. It’s altitude is 2300m and it is 7 km from Karakol city. The ski resort performs with a few chair lifts and runs of different levels of complexity what is good as for the professionals as for the beginners. The season starts in November and lasts until April. Those who prefer “freeride” or cross country rather than well groomed and predictable trials can range across the vast expanses of snowy slopes.

Karakol resort also performs with a terrain park (specially for those ones who are fond of freestyle) build in 2009/2010 season. The terrain park will be upgraded and a bit changed for the jib lines for the upcoming 2010/2011 season.

Some resort numbers and facts (due to date):

• Lifts: 4 char lifts
• Summit: 3040m
• Routes: beginner, intermediate, advanced, extreme
• Vertical drop: 792m
• Restaurant and bar: 1
• Cafe: 1
• Hotel: local resort rooms and 4 star Caprice hotel
• Terrain park with jib lines: yes
• Snowmaking: yes
• Nearest airport: Bishkek or Alma-Aty
• Backcountry and freeride capabilities: yes
• Heliski and heliboarding: possible on request (Feb-March)

BMT support

Are you going to visit Kyrgyzstan to ride Karakol ski resort for having some great winter holidays or even for making movie (yes, you are especially welcomed )? Well in this case we are (the BMT team) ready to answer all of your questions and provide you with the most possible help and cooperation we can. Feel free to contact us and ask any sort of questions connected with your travel planning or having fun with us!

We gladly support any of snowboard-ski movie making crews (check BMT blog for more details a bit later).

Karakol location

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27 марта… утро… по ощущениям пришла весна, и уже должны цвести плодовые деревья и светить теплое солнышко, но! просыпаешься утром, открываешь свою тяжелую штору, которая полностью закрывает окно… и WTF? Опять, в который раз – все напрочь ЗАВАЛИЛО снегом!

Как же задолбал этот снег. Но где-то внутри еще живет желание катнуть заключительный раз в этом сезоне и отпустить зиму с миром. И это чувство решает все.. (continue reading…)

Well, this season is very poor for snow and what we got yesterday is just a second good snowfall in the city. This guys never miss the chance to have some good fun on rails in the city.

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What the hell? I can see some snow in the mountains, is it much or not I should go and check it by myself. 3 days of snowing should cover all mountains with at least 30cm of powder, but unfortunately it wasn’t really much.

Some local mountains

Some disappointment fell into our hearts when we came to Kizil Beles ski base and saw that there was just about 10-15cm of snow. More of all the ground was still soft and warm and it was thawing. The ski base was not ready to take visitors and the lift was not working this day. (continue reading…)

The “360.kg” extreme club is setting up a new snowpark at the small resort called “Ak-Tash”.

Jumping at Ak Tash resort

It is a small resort located at about 30 kilometers from Bishkek on the way to the Ala-Archa gorge. (continue reading…)

While being at Karakol resort at first time on snow park planning question we met a group of guys from South Korea which were recording an interview from some resort workers.

Conversation with EBS team at Karakol resort

When we went up to the east lift we had a little conversation with Park Jung Un, which seems to be a head of this team, and he told us that they are making HD-quality movie about Kyrgyzstan tourism and nature for introducing it to the South Korean people. (continue reading…)