Report on a hike along the Lukh River from Frolishchi to Gorokhovets. Vladimir region

Just returned from a kayaking trip. We decided to continue our journey and sail even further along the Lukh River, from Talitsy to Frolishchi. This route had very tempting reviews on the Internet.

We start again from the same village near Suzdal.

Traditional photo before the start:

We drove our car to Talits. You need to go through Ivanovo and Yuzha. From Yuzha to Talits the road is gravel, but quite flat. You can develop good speed.

In Talitsy itself the road goes to the river (bridge). Behind the bridge there is an excellent ramp straight to the water.

Our super driver:

Here we assemble the kayak:

and we sail.

Lukh immediately shows himself in all his glory:

High sandy shores, pine and oak trees, a soaring hawk in the heights and the splash of water...

As my son said, you can make your desktop wallpaper based on photos of this river.

Unlike the upper reaches (where we couldn’t even go ashore for the whole day), the lower reaches of the Lukh are simply replete with parking lots. In fact, you can stop every 100-200 meters. The problem of finding a good place simply does not exist.

On the first day, we arrived in the evening and traditionally sailed for no more than 2 hours, stopping on a high sandy shore in the pine trees.

The bottom line is that the Lukh River is a place of comfortable tourism. Paid kayaking trips are conducted here and people are entertained in every possible way.

For this purpose, amazing parking lots have been prepared along the entire length of the river at a distance of 2-3 hours, with tables, chairs and fire pits. There are not just a lot of them, but a lot of them.

We only realized later that everyone who sailed past us knew about this and followed a clear program, knowing exactly the location of a good anchorage.

But this didn’t upset us particularly, because our place was also quite good, with beautiful view and its own beach.

I would like to say a few words about our tent. She deserves it.

The fact is that the worst thing about a hike is mosquitoes and horse flies. In remote areas populated areas There are so many of them in places that at times you begin to go crazy from the black cloud, constantly stinging you in all places.

Last year I bought myself a new tent from Decathlon, consisting of an outer tent and an inner closed part. This turned out to be an incredibly cool thing - not a single flying reptile flies into the inner tent and you can fully sleep in it without worrying about mosquito squeaks.

The next day we got up not very early and swam further in the cold, stopping every 2 hours to swim on the GORGEOUS beaches with the finest white sand, which you will not find even at sea.

We sailed until 7 pm and again stopped at a parking lot on a high bank in the pine trees with our own beach (the river is below, so it is not visible):

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In the morning we got up early to be in Frolishchi for lunch. It turned out that they did it in vain, because it was only 1-1.5 hours away from Frolishchi.

In general, we can conclude that along Lukh on this route you should go like this:

Day 1. Start at 17:00, sail until 19:00 and find an excellent anchorage with a table and chairs.

Day 2. Get up at 10:00, sail at 12:00 and sail until 16:00-17:00. It is at this time that there are especially many excellent ready-made parking lots. Further places are also good, but the parking lots are not equipped.

Day 3. Get up at 9:00, sail at 11:00 and be in Frolishchi at 12:00.

Frolishchi greeted us with the sparkling domes of a functioning monastery:

The route ended near the bridge in Frolishchi with a huge blockage:

The river there is very shallow and we forded it all:

In Frolishchi we had difficulty finding a person who, for 6 thousand rubles. took us to Suzdal (220 km from Frolishchi).

It turned out that kayakers do things differently: first they drive their cars to Frolishchi, and then they drive them for 3 thousand rubles. They are taken along the forest road along Talits.

This is where our journey ended.

Overall, I would say that it was more bathing than educational. In its purest form, it is a route for picnics and for people who love comfortable conditions.

Although we are not like that, we were very pleased with the rafting. Which is what we recommend to you too.

So, I will describe my impressions of our kayaking trip.

First the performance characteristics:
The four of us went (not counting the dog) female cast:

petrovna And ora_de_montale - experienced kayak hikers, they also walked along Lukh, but not from the upper reaches, but from Talits
"my beautiful N." - went hiking, but not kayaking
Well, I myself am a “camping white sheet”, an exclusively urban person, albeit an active one.

Watercraft - kayaks "Taimen" and "Vuoksa", both double.

Cards
A map of our route is shown at the top of the report. Brief explanations: our route is marked with a yellow dotted line. The orange dotted line is the recommended route (we only diverged once when we didn’t go into the channel). Yellow stars are our parking spots.
Approximate map of the Lukh River: http://www.skitalets.ru/books/100mar/sx9.jpg
Maps of Ivanovo and Vladimir regions (scale 1:200000) - http://mapy.mk.cvut.cz/data/Rusko-Russia/
Part of the cards Ivanovo region(scale 1:100000) - http://map37.narod.ru/
Collection of links to maps and atlases - http://www.zanzibar.ru/links/map_links.htm

My map of the Lukh River (click to open in full size- 1.7 MB)

Difficulties
1) You can “skip” the necessary channel to bypass the lake. Shadrino (as we did). On the map of our route, the “correct” channel is marked with an orange line, but we had to go through Lake Shadrino, as a result we lost 3 hours.
2) Two places on Lukha are considered “overflow” - a bridge in Frolishchi and a blockage near an inactive bridge approximately 4.5 hours from Frolishchi. We were lucky in both cases - the blockage in the left span of the bridge was dismantled, and a passage was cut through the blockage near the bridge (I suspect that this was done by the same Gorky team). But judging by reports, you may not be so lucky.
3) It’s quite problematic to return from the route, either when getting off at Perovo or at Gorokhovets (it’s 20 km from Perovo to Gorokhovets along Klyazma). Keep in mind that train tickets to Moscow (especially on Sunday) may not be available.
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I will answer your questions with pleasure.

But my personal opinion, as a beginner in hiking, is that kayaking is quite comfortable and convenient.

: Photos posted :)

Below the mouth of Lulikh, in our opinion, are the best places for fishing on Lukha. Two or three kilometers below the mouth of Lyulich, on the left bank of the Lukh, there are places where you can organize a parking lot. About six or seven kilometers below the mouth of Lyulikh, Lukh turns to the northwest, forming a large bow. In this place (at the base of the river bow) there is a sign with the inscription: "Quiet zone. Movement is prohibited." Next to this board there is a “prescriptive” sign with an arrow pointing to the entrance to the artificial ditch connecting the beginning and end of the river bow. As local fishermen later told us, the river bow with Lake Shadrino is a zone of nomenklatura peace, formed for the recreation of the first secretary of the Ivanovo regional committee of the CPSU. Judging by the good condition of the shield and the “prescription” sign with an arrow, the facility is still in operation today.

Ditch: three to four meters wide, about half a meter deep, with a sandy bottom, passes through thickets of willow trees. After the ditch, Lukh winds through the swampy banks almost to the village of Gogoli. The rather dull landscape is enlivened by purple thickets of loosestrife.

Transport through Lukh at the Tatara cordon, shown in topographic map Ivanovo region scale 1:200,000, published in 1997, is not valid. Yes, and the cordon itself looks abandoned. Below this place from the river we saw a constant source of smoke on the left bank of the Lukh. As we were told, these were peat quarries that were burning.

We stopped at the parking lot on the left bank of the Lukh, opposite the mouth of the right tributary of the Istok River. Here Lukh forms another large bow, but which is several times smaller than the bow at Lake Shadrino. From the northern base of the bow to its southern base you can walk along the trail in 15 minutes. Along the river by kayak, this journey takes about forty minutes. There is another good parking area at the southern base of the bow. Lukh near the mouth of the Istok River is often visited by local fishermen.

Hornets lived at this site and at all our subsequent sites on Lukha. Thank God they never stung us. But a local fisherman who decided to spend the night in his balk e on the opposite bank of the Lukh, settled in the balk e the hornets stung. A hornet sting is very painful even for an adult healthy man.

What caused us trouble was a mouse (or maybe some other nocturnal animal, we don’t know for sure), which gnawed through the side wall of the tent, a new nylon bag, a plastic bag and got to the sweets stored in them. The morning after our first night in the campsite, we discovered this hole in the tent and put a canvas patch over it. On the morning after the second night, we saw that the mouse had enlarged the hole that already existed in the side wall of the tent several times, repeating its attempt to enter the tent in the same place, but was unable to gnaw through the tarpaulin.

On the high indigenous bank near the parking lot there is a good mixed forest of pine and birch with blueberry and lingonberry bushes. But, probably due to the weather conditions in May-July (first night frosts, and then almost two months of thirty-degree heat without rain), there were practically no berries. On the banks of the Lukh here and below, rose hips and black currants grow almost everywhere.

Having taken a day off from work on Friday, we decided to use the last warm days and rafting down the Lukh River, very popular among water tourists. Of course, we couldn’t cover the entire route in three days, so we limited ourselves to the section from the village of Myt to the village of Frolishchi (110 km). Moreover, in this area Lukh appears in all its diversity.

brief information about the river: Lukh, one of the most abundant left tributaries of the Klyazma (Volga basin), in the upper reaches flows along the gently undulating plain of the Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod and Vladimir regions, in the middle and lower reaches the terrain is more flat, covered pine forests. The river bed is winding, in the floodplain, especially in the lower reaches, there are many channels, lakes, oxbow lakes, and a number of places are swampy. In spring, the floodplain is flooded for about a month. Length 240 km, basin area 4450 km2. The food supply is predominantly snow with a large share of rain and less soil. The range of level fluctuations is 4.5 m. The average flow rate 109 km from the mouth is about 17 m3/sec. Freezes in end of November, opens in April.

So, Luh. Having read Y. Voronov’s book “100 Selected Routes...”, we chose this river, which was given one of the highest scores in this book. True, we only had three days, so we didn’t get to walk the entire route, but a section from the village of Myt to the village of Frolishchi (110 km). We left Moscow on Thursday evening by train Moscow-Ivanovo-Kineshma and in the morning we were in Vichuga, which is between Ivanovo and Kineshma. An hour later we took a bus to the fork in the road to Lukh, then hitchhiked to the village of Lukh. Of course, we could have started from this village, but then we simply would not have been physically able to get to Frolishch on Sunday evening.

We lost almost three hours in Luja. But then we took the bus to another intersection, and literally jumped onto another bus, and at about one o’clock in the afternoon we ended up in the village of Myt. Which is exactly what we needed.

There, having collected the Marinka-2 kayak near the bridge, we had lunch with lingonberries bought from local residents, after which we immediately set sail. Immediately after the start, we entered a narrow channel (near the right bank), swam along it, and came out into a small lake, in which we almost got lost while looking for the channel. But everything is successful - we are finally in the riverbed, which here is 100 meters wide, or even 150 meters wide. One gets the feeling that the river is quite large. Having sailed under a high-voltage power line hanging menacingly over the river, we moved forward, albeit very slowly due to the rising headwind and the almost complete absence of current. The banks in this area are almost entirely inaccessible, swampy, overgrown with willow. You can only land near the village of Barskoye, on the right bank. But soon after this village, after the confluence of the Lyulikha on the right, the indigenous banks come close to the water, and there are places for hunters and fishermen to stop.

At one of these places we conceived, rested and swam. The places are picturesque, although there is trash in the parking lots and there may be broken bottles. The shores are sandy, deep river, in general - class! However, soon after this the channel again goes through a low, swampy floodplain. Here, following the sign, we entered a rather long and very picturesque channel, which shortened our path a little. After it, the unovergrown river bed is not wide and winds very strongly! For example, when a motorboat was following us, we heard the noise of its engine for a good half hour and waited for it to pass us before it actually passed us. Then the wooded bank came close to the river only in front of the village of Gogoli, and then only once. Arriving at a wooden bridge in Gogol, Pasha entered the village and purchased milk and several eggs from the local residents. When he arrived, he spoke in delight about the kindness of the village people. True, the military cordon on the other side forced us to recognize the realities of our time. Which, as it turned out later, were reflected in this river.

After Gogol, we swam several kilometers and settled on a small patch of solid land in the middle of a swampy floodplain, because about fifteen minutes later night gradually fell on Ivanovo land. But the place was quite tolerable, except there were a lot of mosquitoes. The night was dark, starry, full of mysterious distant sounds of military exercises.

In the morning, after swimming and having breakfast, we started. Lukh again goes through a chain of small lakes, smoothly turning into each other. In some places there are convenient banks for parking, high and sandy, overgrown with forest, which sometimes moved away from the river. Moreover, the floodplain of the river here abounds with snakes - we have more than once encountered these animals swimming across the Lukh, and once almost literally.

Near the village of Mugreevo-Dmitrovskoye, the river began to split into many channels, not wide and with fast current, which are easy to get confused in, especially since many of them were blocked by fence-like structures. True, there were no carry-outs, but we had to go through very carefully. One day, after swimming into one channel, we realized from the oncoming current that it was a tributary.

Finally, having passed this small labyrinth, the river after the village of Mugreevo-Nikolskoye begins to wind through open areas in sandy banks, three meters high. The river is not wide and therefore the current is quite fast.

Then, a few kilometers before Talitsy, the riverbed straightens out and resembles canals. There are villages, but they do not come close to the shore, except for one in front of Talitsy.

Already in the Talits area, the character of the river began to change: the banks became mixed forests with the predominance of pine, oak, and birch, the banks began to rise and the river became shallow - as always when there are sandy soils along its path. In Talitsy we saw an incomprehensible structure from the times developed socialism, producing the dull sound of running motors. Apparently, local communications in this village, whose population works mainly as service personnel in places not so remote, discharge their contents into the river. And indeed, having sailed from Talitsa, it became noticeable that rusty-colored foam had appeared on the water, and the algae had almost disappeared in the water.

Having sailed several kilometers, we, as always, started in semi-darkness, and pitched the tent in deep darkness. Before mooring we met a group of kayakers sailing from Talitsy.