Kel Ter

DURATION: 1-2 days
TOTAL DISTANCE: 260 km
BIKING ROUTE: 60 km
SEASON: summertime
The backpackers will be transported to the start of the trail by bus.

“Kel Ter is a side valley of a larger Kegety mountain gorge, mentioned in our other trails. Slopes of the Kel Ter valley are covered with scarce flora of archa juniper, russian olives, dog rose and barberries. In about eight km. further up the valley, the trail goes into the fur woods. It’s here that the Kel Ter river takes source from the joint Tamchi and Kel Ter springs. Look for a trail going up a ridge in serpantines. It leads to alpine meadows and keeps climbing the moraine hills until suddenly coming to a vast lake. You can picnic here. Further up the valley, there are several moraine lakes and the Kel Ter glacier. Reaching them, will take another full day hike. In this case make camp by the lake.”

- B. Marechek, Trails of Northern Kirghizia, 1968.