Jyrgalan Yurt Lodge ski tour camera is back online

Finally the web camera at Jyrgalan valley is back online. We had a huge renovation at the site since the September and had to turn off the camera. 

Jyrgalan Yurt Lodge - back country skiing splitboarding and skitour
Jyrgalan Yurt Lodge, December 2018

Overall we have 4th yurt set up at our area and now we have 3 client yurts, in the spring we will add one more yurt which means that in summer you can choose to stay from 3 private yurts and one shared.

As for mid-December snow status – there is around 35-45cm of snow at the snowmobile-supported back country skiing area and yesterday we had a group from Kazakhstan who enjoyed the snowboarding at this area.

The plans for upcoming season are huge and awesome, check them out:

  • New lodge at the upper Jyrgalan valley at 2900m – named Jyrgalan Heights Yurt lodge – done, details coming soon
  • New lodge at the Tyup valley at 2300m – named Jyrgalan-Tyup Yurt Lodge – in the process of setup
  • Personal windguru weather station at the Jyrgalan Yurt Lodge site – done
  • Explore snowkiting possibilities at Jyrgalan valley – coming soon
  • New website dedicated to the back country yurt skiing in Kyrgyzstan – SKIYURT.KGcoming soon

Jyrgalan Yurt Lodge skitouring snow status update

2017/2018 winter in Kyrgyzstan is quite poor for snow. Karakol ski resort has a worst new year holidays in the past 10+ years. A lot of tourists came from around the globe and got nothing except a tiny amount of groomed snow on the runs which turned into a mixture of mud and ice in after a couple days. The same story on all offpiste slopes and areas around Karakol. We could not even run a snowmobile backcountry in the Karakol gorge as we usually do during this time.
Most areas towards the East has almost similar story. But wait, what about Jyrgalan? Seems like it is a special place hidden in the mountains at the edge of the Issik-Kul valley. It gets a true lake-effect which really works compared to other places around the huge Issik-Kul valley. Last week we had 30+ hours of snowing in a row at Jyrgalan backcountry skiing yurt lodge!

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Gallery update for Aksuu BC skiing yurt lodge 2016

After one week at the Aksuu backcountry skiing yurt lodge we have done a lot of small upgrades all over the camp. We have a slackline and swing now. New sauna looks and feels so great. We already had a couple snow dumps since beginning of November.

Check the gallery below.