When is the best time to go to Western Sayan

2Papaver: Why didn't you get vaccinated?.. Got vaccinated... Now we need to go to the third vaccination (all three are domestic), after which, they say, for 3 years you can more or less relax... But, as far as I remember, vaccination does not give a 100% guarantee against the consequences, but greatly reduces them, and besides, Lyme disease does not go anywhere. Therefore, the rejection of ticks as such is still relevant...

When are you going?" The question is not idle - between the post. injection and a potential contact, they recommend a minimum period of a month, or better-3... This is to avoid a cumulative effect (well, so that it doesn't get any worse...) .

The reference point is the beginning of July (depends on other members of the group). That is, it will take place in the region of a month and a half from the last injection. The vaccination center said that you can go almost immediately after the third one (they say, there will just be a continuation of the first two actions, and that's all), although, of course, you don't really want to go right away :--)

I haven't been to Sotovo pass(to go from Abaza).From Abakan to Kyzyl on
the border Kurtushibinsky hr collected in 1995.I recommend staying at
the top, at the cell tower.I lived there for 2 weeks-
one shift worker lives there every week.This is when climbing the pass(before reaching about
1-2 km to the top of the pass, a dirt road will go to the left (to the east), it
loops up to the ridge(about an hour's walk).You can see it from the highway
.There's a shift booth,a diesel one, and a separate house with several
beds.We had a great life there.At the bottom of the highway there is a clearing with a high-voltage line-
there are a lot of Colias palaeno, Boloria.When climbing, there is a lot of Oeneis
norna on the road.At the top, you need to walk along the ridge to the east, just behind the first
mountain (consisting entirely of a pile of stones) there are many Oeneis sarala,
Erebia rossi.Further alpika-Colias tyche.Alpika goes very far-
one day you can't leave the station.We need to stomp with a backpack.Perhaps
there is P. eversmanni.

Sergey Gundorov
Saratov
butterfly-gundorov@yandex.ru

Sergey, thank you for the info. We'll be farther west, just close to the hundredth pass, but hopefully it won't be any worse for the butterflies...