Hi! Guys, we want to go to the same route next week. Could you please share route description if any you have? We found one English guide with a few words about this 2a. May be there is some more informative guide?
Hey! Not really... I've been there before with a guide and just knew the route. But it's actually quite easy to find the route: from camping site - which is in the fields along the river at the foot of Chaukhi mountains (on Juta side of Chaukhi) - if you face four great peaks (impossible to miss - Javakhishvili, Asatiani, Leonidze, Kameron) Mt. Tikanadze will be at your 2-3 o'clock. You'll easily recognize it. Ascending it and finding the path which leads to the ridge is quite straightforward - see the last photo in the video. Then you just follow the ridge up to the top. You'll need a rope for sure (and a group of a few people respectively to rope up), and helmets. other rock climbing gear is not necessasy. There is only one light vertical section to climb just before the summit, other sections on the ridge might get a bit scary for novices but nothing really serious (implying that every route is still treated with due caution though, no matter how easy people say it is)
Hi! Guys, we want to go to the same route next week. Could you please share route description if any you have? We found one English guide with a few words about this 2a. May be there is some more informative guide?
Hey! Not really... I've been there before with a guide and just knew the route. But it's actually quite easy to find the route: from camping site - which is in the fields along the river at the foot of Chaukhi mountains (on Juta side of Chaukhi) - if you face four great peaks (impossible to miss - Javakhishvili, Asatiani, Leonidze, Kameron) Mt. Tikanadze will be at your 2-3 o'clock. You'll easily recognize it. Ascending it and finding the path which leads to the ridge is quite straightforward - see the last photo in the video. Then you just follow the ridge up to the top. You'll need a rope for sure (and a group of a few people respectively to rope up), and helmets. other rock climbing gear is not necessasy. There is only one light vertical section to climb just before the summit, other sections on the ridge might get a bit scary for novices but nothing really serious (implying that every route is still treated with due caution though, no matter how easy people say it is)