Alloying along Chuya, Middle Katun and Ursula on catamarans

1 DAY (Saturday). On Saturday you can take our planned bus from Barnaul (420 km), Biysk (250 km) or Gorno-Altaisk (150 km) to the base camp near the village of Edigan and relax from the road.

2 DAY (Sunday). Flight to start rafting from our base camp. We also meet and pick you up from Gorno-Altaisk (from the morning plane) and Chemala (from the morning bus). We move things into drivebags, load ships and equipment onto cars and drive along the Chui highway. Today we are waiting for three hundred kilometers of the mountain road, the long Seminsky pass and the harsh Chike-Taman pass. The road and the river are clamped by mountains. You can only go down to the shore in a few places. We stop at the planned start of rafting on the shore of Chui at the threshold of the Petrel. Calmly unload, prepare dinner and settle down for the night in tents on the shore.

3 DAY (Monday). We pack up, blow up catamarans, tie up drives. Safety briefing. Each tourist is given and fitted with personal water equipment (savage, helmet, paddle). Wetsuits should be thought about in advance (pre-try on and take on the base). Start. Tourists pass the Burevestnik threshold (length 300 m, consists of 2 steps). Inspection and passage of the Behemoth threshold (powerful plums, barrels, raging shafts up to 2 m high). Since 1976, international competitions of watermen Chuya Rally have been held on this threshold. It's 22 kilometers a day.

4 DAY (Tuesday). Viewing and passing a powerful threshold Turbinny (here at the site of 25 m the river falls by 4 m), the threshold of the Turclub, Horizon. Thresholds of canyon type, the river is sandwiched in rocks 15-20 m high. After the rapids there is a large section of Shiver and after 6 km we are already waiting for Katun! Chuya combines its waters with the blue Katunya, dramatically changing its color and transparency. Perhaps, in the evening at the halt, tourists will join us, who begin from here rafting on the middle Katun on rafts. Transition in a day 24 km.

5 DAY (Wednesday). Occasionally we come across small shafts and barrels. After 2 hours, the group approaches the threshold of Ilgumensky (IV c.s.). The length of the threshold is about 300 m, powerful water and waves up to 2.5 m high. At all rapids there is an opportunity to view the rapids and bypass them along the shore, but, as a rule, the group passes most of the rapids of the middle Katun without preview and, of course, without bypassing them along the shore. Since it is difficult for tourists to shoot video in the doorsteps themselves, a video camera is mounted on the nose of our raft. After rafting, ask for a memorable video from the captain! Next, we are waiting for the Kadrinskaya pipe (IV c.s.), consisting of individual rapids with a total length of about 12 km, with large waves, rock narrowing, barrels and funnels.
We pass the threshold of the Sack, then there will be a small area of calm water, and the group comes to the threshold of the Sabbath - the most serious obstacle on the middle Katun (IV c.s.). The threshold consists of two stages and passes with preliminary exploration and mutual insurance. In the first stage there is a large pulsating barrel. In the second stage, several entrance barrels and many shafts with a height of 2-2.5 m. Between the rapids, too, do not miss - the river is full of Shiver and smaller barrels.
Overnights on the banks of Katun near the mouth of the Ursul River

6 DAY (Thursday). We climb 25 km up Ursula. Today, the thresholds of the Entrance, the Wolf Pit (III square), the Castle (IV square) and the lower gorge of Ursula (IV square). After rafting, a car waits for us and takes us to the camp (240 km). We can finally go to the bathhouse.

7 DAY (Friday). Departure from the camp to Barnaul, Biysk, Gorno-Altaisk.