Rafting on the Suna River in Karelia

We have breakfast at the camp, get ready, go out on the route.

There will be small rapids and ripples almost all the way to Lake Lindozero, reaching the fairly powerful Lebikoski rapid. Further to Lindozer, the river has a calm current, no rapids, beautiful shores, and many islands.

There is a stop for a camping lunch on the way.

In the evening, we will set up camp in a pine forest, where we will have dinner and spend the night.

I'll be able to sleep a little longer today.

The whole day will be devoted to relaxing in a pine forest, on the shore of a beautiful lake.

We fish, sunbathe, swim, make a camping bath.

After leaving the Lindozer, the most difficult and rapid section of the river begins.

The Suna River is becoming more full-flowing, the rapids are stronger and more interesting. In this section, the Uitozhenkoski, Shilmyatoikoski, Sukhoi, Long (Kamenny), Ruozmikoski and Ice rapids can be distinguished from the 14 rapids. Almost all of them have shafts, barrels and very beautiful views.

There is a small nuisance in the form of the Dry threshold, which fully justifies its name. Depending on the water level, it is possible to wire vessels of about 300 m.

Today, there is a whole chain of rapids on our way, especially the Long (Stone) one and a half kilometer long rapids, the Ruozmikoski with a strong jet and a lot of underwater and surface rocks, the Ice One with high drains and stones in the stream.

After the threshold, the Icy Suna calms down, taking the left tributary of the Semcha, becomes even more full-flowing and flows into the Vikshozero.

We walk the rest of the Vikshozer to the hydroelectric dam in the village of Girvas (on the site of the former waterfall of the same name). A unique geological object is located here — the oldest (about 2 billion years old) the crater of a volcano in Karelia.

Today, it bears little resemblance to a volcano in the traditional view, since the once-high mountain was "smoothed out" by a glacier for hundreds of years. However, the volcano is surrounded by streams of frozen lava that poured out of the vent during the last eruption. They are especially clearly visible when the gates for water discharge to the hydroelectric power plant are closed.

We're packing up, loading into a minibus and heading to Petrozavodsk.

Completion of the program in Petrozavodsk, railway station, after 18:00.