Moscow Marsh Throw Spring 2009. Tourist orientation. 
Moscow Marsh Toss briefly IMB - competition for tourist orienteering. Twice a year, spring and autumn, hundreds of people take part in this interesting event. Its essence is simple: with a compass and a map to find на местности Контрольные Пункты КП и придти к финишу. Побеждает тот, кто найдёт максимальное количество КП за минимальное время. О ММБ и его правилах можно прочитать Here:
http://slazav.mccme.ru/mmb/pol09.htm This is my fifth Marsh Brokok, and only once I reached the finish line. It's hard for me to go 100 miles in 2 days. And not just pass, and to overcome бесчисленные болота, лесные чащи, заваленные упавшими деревьями просеки, переправляться через реки, и всё это зачастую с мокрыми ногами и относительно тяжелым backpack. Pass and shoot what I saw. In this material there is no staged shots, they are simply not strong enough. Often lacked even the strength to even get камеру :)
По традиции ММБ стартует в пятницу в 20:00, участники соревнуются всю ночь и весь день в субботу. Вечером обязательный промежуточный финиш, где я планировал sleep and Sunday at 07:00 to finish second start of the evening. At a distance of more than 1000 people came. By the finish it was less than half.
And now the appointed hour arrived, 15 May evening I was at the start of IMB 2009 Spring, near the platform with the great title "Omutische. I was cheerful, full of strength and determination to go the full distance. My Backpack contained a small supply of food and water, sleeping bag, tent and all melochovku. Nothing more, but picked up a decent weight - 12 kg. And of course I took with me the easiest the camera:) My number was A333, and it gave me determination!
Why do I need this? - The answer to the very end of the story.
And here's what I saw during those 48 hours:
1. Before the start. Being registered.
2. Sasha Tonys. Organizer IMB. Thanks to him and his team!
3. One of the contestants
4. One of the most примечательных участников. В руках у него путевой листок.
5. Путевой листок. В нём делаются отметки о взятии Контрольных Пунктов КП.
6. Именно такие компостеры КП мы ищем на маршруте соревнования
7. Евгений Водзинский, неоднократный участник ММБ, хочу поблагодарить за поддержку!
8. Предвкушение marshy distance:)
9. Companions of my journey. Thank you, without you all would have been differently.
10. Moved on!
11. Started smartly and provocatively
12. Типичная местность для первых четырёх контрольных пунктов
13. Типичная тропа для этого ММБ :)
14. Первые 4 КП взяли легко, изрядно испачкались and felt that the adventure begins!
15. KP # 5. Punch was hidden under a bridge M8.
16. Participants choose the further route
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18. On the asphalt walk was more difficult than on land. Asphalt is not amortized and legs uncomfortable.
19. Mist descended. Near KP 6 we have successfully turned from the road to a swampy clearing
20. Halt. The schedule is as follows: 55 minutes walk, 5 minutes rest.
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22. Note travel leaflets on manual 6. Immediately after this, I foot landed in the water. Lucky, managed to jump, feet were dry.
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24. On the road to KP 7 met periodically fires.
Some teams have decided to night and morning with renewed energy to return to the route.
25. Angry MP 7. Searched for his hour and a half. Swirled around him and could not find.
was about throw but the case has helped! Punch in the dark was almost not visible.
26. The crossing at KP 8. Many teams overcame the river ford. We are looking for other ways:)
27. Almost lost, but did not yield to despair!
28. Nearing morning. Got into some kind of surreal swamp, long time to choose. Legs are still dry.
29. Turn off the flashlights most complex behind the night we went through, it seemed to be more easily ....
30. At KP 9. Seen such a strange thing: While looking for manual - like would be no one around, but it's worth to find - right there on all sides run over people:)
31. Most participants prefer a light waterproof footwear. This is your reason.
I'm going to gorteskovyh trekking boots. By this time they have had time to seep a little water.
32. Well when there is a firebreak, and trails even if overgrown.
33. Soft carpet underfoot. Moss, beneath the water. 7:30 right boot a little wet, the left n right.
34. Near MP 10. I am wrong is the same grimy :)
35. My hands are a little cleaner, I'm going to wear gloves
36. So we rested, lay directly in their huge backpacks.
37. Crossing. R. Volga. Decided not to go into ford.
38. Very afraid of falling into the water along with the camera. And still feared that finally get your feet wet. Fears were not confirmed.
39. A good way to Towards the KP 11 or 12. Mind by this time began to fade, fatigue affected.
40. KP, 12-step. Instead of hanging composter divert to another location on the map. Surprise from the organizers.
KP 1913 was takoyzhe.
41. Bad road:)
42. Lying down resting, contemplating it.
43. Solaris. One of the companions of my journey. Уставший. Прошло 17 часов с начала соревнований.
44. Хотя некоторые из участников шагают весьма бодро.
45. КП 13. Всё чаще видим отдыхающие команды.
46. Beaver dam. Went to pass over 14 CP. Now I realize that it was a mistake but then we just gave up.
47. Attempt the crossing near MP 15.
48. Reserve forces нас, привалы становятся чаще и дольше. Ноги совсем не хотят идти. Мокрые, но без мозолей, просто очень устали.
49. Тем не менее ~ в 20.30 мы доковыляли до финиша. 24 часа were very rich! :)
Forces have been just enough to put up a tent, hastily eat and sleep.
50. Sunday morning, 07:00. Those who did not surrender charge New maps, competition continues.
51. A typical path of the second day.
52. Behind us, nobody. We go slowly, not the first nor the last.
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56. Напрочь разбитая дорога перед КП 21
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58. КП 21. Берём уже без радости, чисто на автомате.
59. Переправа через какойто ручей I can not remember where:)
60. On the second day of forests has been less walk more easily.
61. Simply because before, we have already treaded amazing trails!
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63. Weather pleased. Most of all I feared the rain. At this time without him.
64. Overtook vacationers.
65. We were also overtaken. The finish is still far but many in a hurry. The first 500 who came would get souvenirs - icons.
66. Despite the worn legs we decided to take all the CP of the second day.
67. Most youngest of us.
68. Vigorous step, one after another.
69. The procession, hurrying to finish:) It was very funny in it to go.
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71. To overcome the blockages were very difficult. So what happens on the first day is easy - the second was very difficult.
72. KP 27
73. This kind of opened me right before the finish
74. At the finish Sasha Tonys personally congratulate those who were able to climb the route and handed over icons.
75. My companions. Relatively clean and do not look very tired, although this is not true.
76. Finish was in an incredibly beautiful place! After a horrible swamps and impenetrable forest landscapes, these seemed unearthly chemto!
77. Belfry Argunovskaya Nicholas Church. Built in 1813.
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During those days I walked 80.5 km
Among them:
50,5 km / Friday / Saturday
30 km on Sunday
average speed: 2,3
Postroynel to 3 kilos:)
As a result I ended up about 180 seats out of 275:) I'm glad that came. That reached I and my companions. We did it! :)
answer to the question "Why do I need to"
Excerpted from Levi, "A Conversation in the letters"
«New - well forgotten old". We well, we very well forget. We have forgotten his own nature. Ceasing to live as they lived thousands or millions of years - just that, historically, just five minutes ago - Ceasing to live by nature due to the emergence of money, cars, televisions, etc., stopped short, be yourself, we immediately forgot about how it's done. How to eat, sleep, breathe, move ...
But do not forget about our poor body and our mind is silly. Trying to remind us, are fighting hard, something to lopochut language of our diseases, ailments, all sorts of variations ... And we are dumb and deaf. Do not remember.
Let us remember: to escape from hunger, cold and enemies, run, roam all day, fight, climb the icy water, climb on the rocks - all this was done otrodjas not voluntarily. Let us recall: why our feet and shoulders, spine and powerful hips, why is the abundance of malonuzhnyh muscles and ligaments creaking? Why so much fuel adrenaline? Yes, all followed the same: to keep internally load. The need for them is provided in our genetic program - we are in need of these loads, though not always realize it. We need the stress and struggle and danger, fear and triumph, and sorrow and ecstasy ...
Congestion underloaded. We speak: stress, damn stress we get, you know, emotional overload. Yes, all true. But what kind of stress overload and what, may I ask? Do you know what is the most explosive material in the world? Boredom! The absence of this stress, given by the natural struggle for life, rather than phone calls, domestic scandals and abuse in the queues; overload of nedogruzok ... Do you know why it is so hard to go to crowded public transport in peak hours? Crush, the stuffy crowd. But the main thing - immobility: can not turn around, change position, you can not jump, kick ... And rightly so, of course: it is impossible! - But sometimes some people so eager ... We say: sports. Yes, well, But ask yourself - why? Do not then, to fill the vacuum left by the forced disappearance of natural stresses? To the sport whether it was a plowman and hunters, soldiers at war, the shepherds in the mountains? Life itself was their sport.
A massive modern phenomenon is this: we are physically underused, and we damned restrained in his movements, if only we do not starve, then uncontrollably overeat, we poison your blood and your brain, and we're lazy and spoiled, we are emotionally depleted.
So what? "Back in the cave, coming out? Well, no. Those charms irrevocable ... But one thing is clear: if in a sudden decrease of natural violence, we want to live fully, if you do not want to physically and mentally to degrade, it only remains to replace nature in that its function - that is to force yourself to physical activity and spiritual. Knowingly, voluntarily. Health Formula: balance of desire and compulsion.
From myself I say: At night in the woods with a flashlight and a map, right through breaking through fallen trees, I felt, felt the whole body: I LIVE! That this is real life!
I look forward to the continuation of the autumn! :)
Thank you for your attention!
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