Tag: skiing

At the Karakol ski resort, the eastern ski lift broke down

On February 5, 2024, during midday hours, the ski lift leading to an altitude of 3040 meters (known as the panoramic lift) suffered a breakdown at the Karakol ski resort. At the time of the incident, numerous skiers and snowboarders were utilizing the lift.

The rescue operation to evacuate stranded tourists commenced only after a delay of 1.5 hours. Faced with the wait, some tourists grew impatient and chose to jump off the chairlifts, resulting in one person sustaining a broken arm.

The rescue operation, which involved lowering tourists using ropes, continued for several hours beyond the ski resort’s usual operating hours.

Eyewitnesses attribute the breakdown to a malfunction of the lift’s motor. Consequently, this specific lift is expected to remain non-operational for the next 7-14 days.

Jyrgalan Yurt Lodge ski tour camera is back online

Finally the web camera at Jyrgalan valley is back online. We had a huge renovation at the site since the September and had to turn off the camera. 

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Jyrgalan Yurt Lodge, December 2018

Overall we have 4th yurt set up at our area and now we have 3 client yurts, in the spring we will add one more yurt which means that in summer you can choose to stay from 3 private yurts and one shared.

As for mid-December snow status – there is around 35-45cm of snow at the snowmobile-supported back country skiing area and yesterday we had a group from Kazakhstan who enjoyed the snowboarding at this area.

The plans for upcoming season are huge and awesome, check them out:

  • New lodge at the upper Jyrgalan valley at 2900m – named Jyrgalan Heights Yurt lodge – done, details coming soon
  • New lodge at the Tyup valley at 2300m – named Jyrgalan-Tyup Yurt Lodge – in the process of setup
  • Personal windguru weather station at the Jyrgalan Yurt Lodge site – done
  • Explore snowkiting possibilities at Jyrgalan valley – coming soon
  • New website dedicated to the back country yurt skiing in Kyrgyzstan – SKIYURT.KG – coming soon

March 3 snow conditions update, Karakol ski resort avalanche fatality

A huge storm on March 2-3 brought a lot of snow all over the east Issik-Kul area. Here is the small update on the local areas:

Jyrgalan back country skiing yurt lodge: 50+ cm of fresh powder.
Aksuu back country skiing yurt lodge: 35-45 cm of fresh powder overnight.
Karakol ski resort: around 20 cm of fresh powder.

There was also a couple small snowfalls during the past 7 days. The weather is already a spring-like and more and more slopes are becoming avalanche-dangerous.

Karakol ski resort avalanche fatality

There was an avalanche fatality at Karakol ski resort a few days ago. A family of 2 adults and 9 y.o. kid went off-piste and triggered avalanche. Whole group  got caught by avalanche and while 2 adults ended on the surface the kid got buried. Not much information available but seems like no any avalanche beacons or safety gear were used. The kid didn’t make it.

Snow status update for Aksuu Backcountry Skiing Yurt Lodge

As said in the previous post – this winter is quite poor for snow in the Northern Kyrgyzstan. At this date (Jan 18, 2018) we have around 40-45cm of snow at the Aksuu Backcountry Skiing yurt lodge site and around 50-60cm at the higher-altitude slopes. See some photos below.

Jyrgalan Pow Yurt Lodge for backcountry skiers and splitboarders

Woohoo!!! We are so much happy to announce a completely new backcountry skiing yurt lodge setup at new location. Jyrgalan valley is well know for the huge snow amounts, nice scenery and great amount of lines for beginner and average backcountry skiers. More info will be available soon at the separate page (left menu). As for now you can make a reservation by contacting us.

Travelers With Skis at Aksuu Backcountry Skiing Yurt Lodge, Kyrgyzstan

We had a very special guests on March 2015. Travelers With Skis team came to visit Aksuu Backcountry Skiing Yurt Lodge, try out our camp life and shred the slopes all around. Check out the 15 min long video which will motivate you to make a step our of this world for a while and find the feeling of real freedom.

Aksuu Backcountry Yurt Lodge is ready for 2015/2016 season!

This season we started earlier to avoid difficulties connected with the transportation of all camp stuff and yurts. The way up to the Aksuu Backcountry Yurt Lodge site took just 3 hours with 2 military soviet URAL trucks compared to 3 days last years late December. We are already running, welcome.

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