Jane Doe

Eleven Days in Svaneti

In late August we walked a part of the Transcaucasian Trail through Upper Svaneti, in the Caucasus of north-western Georgia: eleven days, one of them spent resting, 138 km and about 8,500 m of climbing. The highest pass was at about 3,400 m.

A trip post is a page bundle: this index.md, the route as route.geojson and a folder of photos per gallery.

Ten days of walking, ten nights

The map draws each day in the colour its GeoJSON feature names (stroke), here every other day in blue, or else in the colour scheme’s accent, and the nights as points (marker-color). Click a day for its distance and climbing.

The lakes

The photos are the folder lakes/, in the order of their names; photos.yaml next to it has their alt text, captions and places. The last one is a video: 06-drift.mp4 with 06-drift.jpg as its poster.

  • Layers of purple mountain ridges under a pink dawn sky with a pale sun
    Leaving before sunriseMestia, Georgia
  • A calm blue lake mirroring a forested ridge under a clear sky
    Svaneti, Georgia
  • Dark spruce silhouettes in layers of fog
    Into the fog on day two
  • A small mountain hut with a lit window under an orange sunset
    The guesthouse, finallySvaneti, Georgia
  • A night sky full of stars over a black mountain ridge
  • Video: slowly drifting over the lake
    The lake below the pass

The friends

A second gallery is a second folder, here friends/, with its entries in the same photos.yaml. Each gallery has its own viewer: swiping stays within the folder.

  • Three stick figures cheering on a snowy summit next to a red flag, mountains behind
    All three of us on topSvaneti, Georgia
  • Three stick figures at a long table in front of a wooden hut, raising mugs at sunset
    Cheers in MestiaMestia, Georgia
  • Two stick figures with backpacks holding up a map with a dashed red route
    Which way now?
  • Three stick figures walking in heavy rain under red, yellow and blue umbrellas
    Day two was wetSvaneti, Georgia
  • Two stick figures by a small campfire under a starry sky and a crescent moon
  • Three stick figures squeezed together for a selfie in front of a snowy peak
    The obligatory selfie
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