Winter in the clouds

Writes blogger Sergey Anashkevich:

At Ai-Petri plateau, we went with Dima dirtpix early morning of 10 December 2011 in search of snow, tired of watching the leaden sky in Sevastopol, which is periodically irrigated city warm drizzle.
Do one of the main tasks - to remove the sunrise over the sea, we moved deeper into the plateau to enjoy the fresh snow. I must say that as well as during the shooting of dawn, on the plateau of a dense layer of clouds lay, so much so that sometimes the visibility was no more than two or three meters.
That is what we saw in the winter of Ai-Petri through the clouds below ...
24 photos

1. The inscription on the board, "Stop! Back! Restricted area! Life threatening!". In no uncertain terms. Entry into the cloud is dangerous for life. And radioactive icon ...





2. All road travel more fully noticed. Winter is only just begun and skiers, snowboarders, tourists have not flooded the mass flow. We are here Pervonahi actual snow.



3.Doroga inland plateau. Clouds hang over until the far side. We dismount



4. Lonely birch in the snow field. In the morning, shaggy and unkempt ...



5. What three minutes and visibility is much worse. Summer grasses in white



6. Dairy silence. Incidentally, within the cloud, in addition to visibility and audibility still significantly reduced. Here and so absolutely no sound at this time, and in a white opaque veil general ringing silence.



7. lonely and prickly



8. dirtpix and his red horse



9. cold. The only thought that comes into my head, looking at this picture



10. Rosehip with frost under



11. It is necessary to be careful. Buttoning his jacket tighter ...



12. There was RSA, and even see what was 200 meters x-



13. Going on to lift



14. What are you, my dear, look askance, low head tilt ...?



15. Cable lift goes directly into the bushes ... ... Probably because you need ...



16. The cloud becomes denser and sometimes you have to wait for 10-15 minutes, until become anything seen for shooting panoramas. Finally time to make frames for gluing and back to the road



17. We were pleased with the care of the disabled on the Ai-Petri. Parking sign for them.



18. Today the park is completely empty. By the way, vote visibility



19. We begin the descent towards Yalta. In weather like this feeling of complete abandonment



20. Road serpentine



21. Turn



22. The cloth sprinkled with sand. But still very slippery



23. We descended ...



24. A control shot. Taken after 3 hours. The village Katsiveli, view from Cats



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