Big Mountain Time

A few last weeks chillin’ in K, some photos.

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Some more photos of today. Finished setting up the kitchen (looks nice huh?) and almost finished the stand and the wall for the fireplace.

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Got a nice breakfast… Feels a bit sick after it, but coffee fixed everything.

last candy

Wind still blowing hard. But we can see some small pieces of the blue sky. Hope we wont freeze there. Going to setup a woodstove today. (continue reading…)

Well guys. That is it – we have finished most part of the work building own houses using containers for past 6+ months. Now it is time to move to our spot near Karakol city and enjoy the wild life – the snow, the wind and the peaceful views. Some photos inside.

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Finally you’ve got it. That’s it, just a few days more and all of you can go ahead up and have some nice ride.

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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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Well, the spring is here. It’s warm, but it is still much snow at Karakol ski resort and we had a good riding weekend a few days ago there.

The official resort news says that 28th of March is the official season end. There will be some kind of lottery this day. The lucky ski pass number owner will get a prize in 40 000 soms (WOW!). The resort will be opened till 5th of April.

More of all we had a conversation with main resort manager and I suppose there will be some kind of slalom contest between snowboard and ski teams (not crossing) this day.

More information regarding contest will be available at official Krakol resort ski base and at our blog in English language.

The Kygyzstan Plan movie crew currently bombing Kerege-Tash peaks. They will be there for at least during next 7 days.
Luckily the Karakol area has been covered with a good powder last week and there are good conditions for freeride split boarding during this time while in Bishkek +12 C.

Ну вот и все господа. Все железо доставлено на базу и прошел долгожданный снежок. Поэтому в ближайшие две недели на базе будут установлены все джиб линии и может быть появится парочка бигеров (зависит исключительнот от наличия снега).

Помимо основных элементов планируется установить бочку и пайп-слайд на кикере, эдакая большая труба с вылетом в космос

Приъезжайте испытывать железо. Отписывайтесь в комментах, хорошая компания и новые друзья требуются всегда!

ЗЫ. После завершения работ я смонтирую видео презентацию основных джиб линий и напишу небольшой отчет.