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From Yazlik to Yukari Karvun via Kaçkar peak and Olgunlar (6 nights)

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Distance
34.98 mi
Elevation gain
13,379 ft
Technical difficulty
Difficult
Elevation loss
14,055 ft
Max elevation
12,964 ft
TrailRank 
59
Min elevation
6,971 ft
Trail type
One Way
Coordinates
3668
Uploaded
August 21, 2021
Recorded
August 2021

near Hisarcık, Rize (Türkiye)

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Itinerary description

Beautiful easy paced hiking trek with ascent to Kaçkar peak in the middle. Made it in begining of July 2021. The weather was mostly pleasant with occassional afternoon thunderstorms.

The starting point could be much lower but we had an excellent driver who saved us several hours of boring roadside walking. So for you to know: you can get up to our starting point on 4x4 or a Mercedes "Transporter" type of bus without problems.

Giving it "difficult" grade only for the Kaçkar peak ascent because of a rough trail and 3-4 meters of easy climbing.

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Restaurant

"Kaçkar Olgunlar Cafe"

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Comments  (9)

  • Photo of Mohamad Salah
    Mohamad Salah Dec 20, 2021

    Hello bro how are you .. just wondering.. did you go there by yourself or with a local guide from trabzon ?

    Thanks in advance and i hope the trip was beautiful

  • Photo of llrr
    llrr Dec 20, 2021

    Hey! The trip was wonderful!
    We were a commercial group from Ukraine. Our guide did a scouting trek a week before the whole group started off.

  • Photo of llrr
    llrr Dec 20, 2021

    Oh, forgot to mention that we had no local guide so I know nothing about them.

  • Photo of Mohamad Salah
    Mohamad Salah Dec 20, 2021

    Alright .. thanks for the information

    Another point .. you mentioned that you went on july .. but what was the max and min temperature throughout the trip ?

  • Photo of llrr
    llrr Dec 20, 2021

    It's hard to tell exactly as no one took measurements, but in terms of clothing we wore anything between "shorts/t-shirt" and "long trousers/fleece jacket/optional windbreaker".
    Thunderstorms with pouring rain are not rare - we had one in the afternoon and two in the mornings.

  • Photo of Mohamad Salah
    Mohamad Salah Dec 20, 2021

    Oh great .. so its not that cold even in the summit ?

  • Photo of llrr
    llrr Dec 20, 2021

    It might be very windy but in any case it was well above zero. For example, here's the video from the summit taken a week after our trek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST4aWiGg78c&t=833s

  • Photo of Mohamad Salah
    Mohamad Salah Dec 20, 2021

    Very nice .. last question.. what about the telephone signal ? It was all the time off grid or there is signal ?

  • Photo of llrr
    llrr Dec 20, 2021

    Sorry, I don't have a clear impression as I turned off cellular for the entire trek duration. There's definitely signal in the vicinity of Olgunlar village and even the wi-fi in the restaurant. And I can vaguely recall that other guys were using the phone ocassionally on the trek, but this is not reliable.

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