Extreme rafting on Kutsajoki

Kutsayoki River is considered the most difficult river in Karelia and the Kola Peninsula, with plenty of rapids 3-5 category of difficulty. Therefore, it is recommended to those who have experience in boating, is looking for thrills and this test the strength of spirit and physical strength. All thresholds Kutsayoki must be taken seriously to overcome them and clear the crew the catamaran, and some are impassable obstacles on tourist ships and require portage.

Region: Kola peninsula
Type of tourism: rafting
Duration: 10 days/9 nights
Length of a rafting: 67 km
Rapids difficulty: 3-5 category.
Group: 7 - 17 persons
Overnights: in tents
Meals: three times a day

                                                Itinerary:
Day 1: 06:34. Arrival on a train #16 in Kandalaksha. Meeting near train. Transfer to lake Puhjajarvi (Blue lake) - 130 km. Lunch. Preparing water equipment for rafting (catamarans). Dinner and overnight in tents.
Day 2: Breakfast. General briefing. equipping, start of the rafting. Rafting to the confluence of the river Krasnen'kaya (12 км). Radial trekking along the river to the waterfall-type rapids Kavkazsky, Gorka. Dinner, overnight.
Day 3: Breakfast. Rafting on a river Kutsajoki: lake Puhjajarvi - rapid Doubtful - rapid Ant - rapid BST - waterfall Oba-Na (8 km). All rapids are examined, the decision to portage or passing rapids takes the instructor, specifically for each participant. When passing rapids safety equipment and photo / video are installed. Waterfalls subject portage at all courts and things. Dinner and overnight in the field.
Day 4: Breakfast. Portage of waterfall Mamanya. Rest, fishing, ascent to sightseeing points.
Day 5: Breakfast. Rafting: waterfall Mamanya - rapid Narrow - rapid Step. 14 km. Dinner, overnight.
Day 6: Breakfast. Rafting: rapid Step - rapid Waterfalling - 10 km. Dinner, overnight.
Day 7: Breakfast. Rafting: rapid Waterfalling - river Tumcha - rapid Boiler - 10 km. Dinner, overnight.
Day 8: Day's rest. Boating on a rapids, fishing, tourist's sauna (compact, rapidly collected in the field conditions Tourist's Bath - the best way to relieve fatigue in the campaign. "Bathroom procedure" smooth effect of large doses of adrenaline, relax muscles, relieve tension perfectly).
Day 9: Breakfast. Rafting: rapid Boiler - rapid Sledge - rapid Hat - 13 km. After the rapid Hat Tumcha river after few kilometers flows  into the Iovskoe reservoir. Iovskoe reservoir is located on the river Iova consists of lake and river sites, created to energy and timber rafting.
Dinner and overnight in the field.
Day 10: Breakfast. Collection equipment. Jump to Iovskoe reservoir by boat to the village Zarechensk (45 km). Transfer Zarechensk - Kandalaksha (90 km). Departure at 00.46 by train #15.

The price includes: transfers, meals, guides services, insurance, rental of equipment for the alloy: catamarans, oars, helmets, life jacket, sealed packages, rental of equipment for the camp: a camp fire equipment, tents, sleeping bags, insulating mats.
Additional charges: train tickets to the city of Kandalaksha and back.

Equipment for rafting:
Catamarans - special, undecked inflatable vessels for rafting on rough water. Planting knee.
Paddles, life jacket, spaskontsy, helmets - a proven, easy-to-use equipment.
Equipment for camp:
Tents - quad. At the tent is given the necessary amount of insulation mats.
Sleeping - temperature regime is optimal for the time of the tour. If you take a personal sleeping bag, is to warn the company in advance.
Crockery - personal dishes need to have everyone. Provides pots, trays and other utensils for cooking.

Meals:
Three meals a day. Sometimes, on the basis of the conditions of the route, lunch may be replaced by a snack. Prepares food instructor, help tourists is not forbidden. The menu includes fresh vegetables, soups.
Safety:
Depending on the level of water danger thresholds change. The instructor has the right to decide on Obnosov dangerous areas, to keep the threshold is not prepared or drunken parties. On the water Parties are always a life jacket, when passing dangerous thresholds - in their helmets. 
Physical conditions:
On tour in the river Kutsajoki need a fairly high physical training, because Management catamaran requires of each participant, the rapids are complex and each takes a lot of physical strength.