“5,786 miles from Boulder — so far my longest travel to the shadow! And this a TOTAL adventure!! And it was all about my EXCELLENT couch surfer host Ravil Akhmedov! I slept on a Soviet army cot, he took the week off and we scouted this insanely placid Lake Ab, and then....CLOUDLESS SKIES! ”
novosibirsk #8
Mission: The Siberian Shadow
Posse: Michael (USA), Ravil Akhmedov (Kazack) Novosibisk, Yury Zavarin (Russian) Moscow.
Contact: August 1, 2008
Path: Arctic, Russia, Siberia, China
Our Eclipse Base: Lake Ab, Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia
Weather: perfect
day before, got in ravil's little soviet car, headed out to find the PERFECT vantage right ON centerline. we burrowed into a forest on a sINGLE track to a CLEARING right on the shore of rippleless lake ab. what? mad PERFECTION! zero humanity!
ravil strips, heads to chill in heavenly lake, i scouted. eclipse morning it was all ours & cloudless! paradise with the fun kazak.
WHAT A PERFECT DAY. What a CREW!
It all started in Moscow with my most fine comrade host Yury Zavarin.
AEROplaned --> Novosibirsk Siberia into care of
host Ravil Akhmedov.
MDA snaps.