One of the greats said that a walk in the mountains is tantamount to visiting a church. I go to church quite rarely - I do not need intermediaries to communicate with Him. And I am drawn to the mountains with insane force. It is desirable, of course, that the sea was somewhere nearby. But there is no sea in Arkhyz. But there are lakes. But they still need to be reached. The way to the Dukka Lakes was not particularly difficult, but quite long. I ran along the bank of a winding river, overgrown with thickets of rhododendron, still blooming in places, through clearings of crocuses and bushes of raspberries and blueberries.→