The Wolf Gate Gorge is a small split in the rock, located along the course of the Spider River. The gorge is only 50 m long, and the width varies from several meters to 70-80 cm at its narrowest point. At the same time, the height of the steep walls reaches 10-15 m. Due to the extreme narrowness of this place, it is almost impossible for people walking along it to miss. In the old days, this feature was used to hunt wolves, which were driven into a crevice. It is from this custom that originates modern name terrain.
In the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the Wolf Gate gorge, you can see the White Rocks with a 7-meter waterfall. Under the waterfall there is a creek with a depth of about 2 m with crystal clear water suitable for swimming. Hornbeams, beeches, oaks, chestnuts, evergreen lianas grow on steep slopes along the Spider River. In spring, you can see many primroses (snowdrops, cyclamens, woods, hellebores), almost all species of these plants are listed in the Red Book of Russia.
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Type: Other landscapes Address: Russia, Krasnodar region, environs of Tuapse. How to get there: from the final stop of buses No. 11, 12 go along the street. Internatsionalnaya and further along the trail or by buses No. 2, 10 to the street. Pushkin (stop on demand), then walk to the end of the street and continue along the path marked with blue and red marks on stones and trees.
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The five nearby hotels are shown above. Among them there are both ordinary hotels and hotels with several stars, as well as cheap accommodation - hostels, apartments and guest houses... These are usually private economy-class mini-hotels. The hostel is a modern hostel. Apartment is private apartment With daily rent, and a guest house is a large private house, where the owners themselves usually live and rent rooms for guests. You can rent a guest house with an all-inclusive service, a bathhouse and other attributes. have a nice rest... Check with the owners here for details.
Usually hotels are located closer to the city center, including inexpensive ones, near the metro or train station. But if this is a resort area, then the best mini-hotels, on the contrary, are located farther from the center - on the seashore or on the river.
The Wolf Gate, or Chibi Gorge, is a small gorge in the vicinity of Goryachiy Klyuch. This is not the most popular destination for backpackers and is suitable for a leisurely weekend stroll.
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Wolf Gate Gorge
The Wolf Gate Gorge, or the Chibi Gorge, is a small gorge in the vicinity of Goryachiy Klyuch. This is not the most popular destination for backpackers and is suitable for a leisurely weekend stroll.
Wolf Gate Gorge 44.668311 , 38.976745 The Wolf Gate Gorge, or the Chibi Gorge, is a small gorge in the vicinity of Goryachiy Klyuch. This is not the most popular destination for backpackers and is suitable for a leisurely weekend stroll.
The tract is located in the upper reaches of the central source of the Bolshoi Chibiy stream. The history of its name dates back to the middle of the 19th century, when the local places were actively explored by the Russians. V Hot key then carts with food regularly went, and wolves often attacked the caravans, for which the gorge was the only way to these places from the steppes. Over time, all the predators were destroyed, and the name stuck.
The "Volchye" tract is formed by sheer cliffs of soft gray sandstone, which over time were covered with numerous autographs of careless tourists. The gorge does not exceed 50 meters in length, and the width along the channel is about 4-5 meters. In some places in the gorge it is so narrow that the "walls" on both sides can be touched by simply spreading your arms. The slopes along the cliffs are covered with a dense oak forest, the massive trunks of which are entwined with ivy.
The path to the Wolf Gate gorge in autumn
Despite its length, the Chibi canyon is very picturesque; due to its narrowness, a special atmosphere of semi-darkness and dampness reigns here. About ten meters ahead from the entrance to the canyon overhead, you can see the steps cut into a plumb line and the entrance to a small cave.
Having overcome the gorge, you can climb a small wooded area to look around. Returning to the trail, you can get to the second, "bear" canyon, interesting including the Lermontov's high relief carved into the rock.
How to get there?
To get here, you need to get by car to the village of Chibiy through the village of Novodmitrievskaya. You can leave the car at Sidreria in the farm, and the route starts from there. From settlement a road leads into the forest parallel to the river past the pond, smoothly turning into a path. You will have to overcome about 2.8 kilometers along a wooded slope and continue moving up the river bed. The road will lead to a very picturesque entrance to the canyon, more precisely, immediately to two canyons - to the right of the Wolf Gate on the left source of the stream there is another gap - the Bear Gate, they are somewhat wider and shorter.
The Wolf Gate Gorge is a unique attraction created by nature itself and located not far from the city of Tuapse. The gorge got its name because in the past, in the Caucasus, whole packs of wolves were rounded up in such gorges. This is a wonderful place for an excursion while on vacation in Tuapse in 2019.The road to the gorge runs along the Spider River. Today there are two paths trodden to the gorge, moving along one of them, you will have to wade across the river for a short distance. A beautiful seven-meter waterfall and white cliffs delight with their views on the way to the gorge. The water falling down formed a bowl and filled it, this allows you to swim there. In spring, many flowers bloom in the gorge: snowdrops and cyclamens, bluebirds and hellebores. The nature around the gorge transforms and surprises with its extraordinary beauty until autumn, and autumn colors this place in the gold of chestnut, beech and oak leaves. Many of the plants are listed in the Red Book.
The gorge is interesting not only unique nature, but it is also a monument to the glory of the heroes of the ninth, thirty-first, three hundred and eighty-third rifle divisions. An obelisk with a memorial plaque was erected on the left side of the rock: “Eternal memory to the heroes-defenders of the Caucasus in Velikaya Patriotic War 1941-1945. "
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Chibiy is a small remote village with several courtyards, lost somewhere in the middle between two highways: Krasnodar - Novorossiysk and Krasnodar - Dzhubga. The village is located at the foot of the Pshaf ridge - the first mountain formation in the area. Pshaf, stretching from the village of Stavropolskaya to Goryachiy Klyuch, is not high, its highest point has a height of 490 meters. The name of the ridge, most likely, comes from the Adyghe pshakho - "sandy", "sand". Speaking toponym, because the ridge is composed of sandstones and its northern slopes abound with rocky outcrops along the slopes of gullies cut into the ridge by numerous streams and rivers. The most remarkable and at the same time undeservedly deprived of attention object of the ridge are the Chibi gorges - the Wolf and Bear gates. An excellent destination for a relaxed weekend walk.
You can get to Chibiy only by private car, public transport ends in Kaluzhskaya, from which another seven and a half kilometers of a good dirt road to Chibiya. We were afraid of a problem where to leave the car under supervision, but we were lucky, at one of the courtyards we saw an elderly peasant, asked - he allowed, saying that no one would touch his yard. And to the offer of money, he also answered quite sharply, such a good grandfather was caught.
Photo 1. Foggy morning in Chibiya.
Photo 2. A fellow traveler.
We started our journey. We walked around the last house on the main street on the left side and stomped along a muddy forest road. There were no heavy rains, but there was still enough rainfall for the section of the road from the village to turn into an unpleasant chvakotny, annoyingly clinging to your boots. Behind the village there is a small monument dedicated, as usual, to the events of the Second World War. In the same place, at the last house, a dog became attached to us. Surprisingly, this dog is walking with us for the second time. In March of this 14th year I was in these places, but then the trip, for a number of reasons, turned out to be not the most successful, I did not write about it, however, and then this very dog walked with us.
Photo 3. The beginning of the path.
The first gorge, the Wolf Gate, is about an hour's walk. A little along a forest road on a hill, then a left turn, the road leads narrower to the bed of the Big Chibiy, the river, which is actually a barely perceptible drying up stream and then the path runs along the channel. The first fork on the way. Both paths lead to a gorge, only a straight path, along the Bolshoi Chibiy to the Wolf's Gate, and a right turn to the Bear's Gate. We go straight, five minutes from the fork and we are on the spot. The gorge turns out to be modest in comparison with what can be found in the "adult" mountains, but very interesting place... For fifty meters, stone walls, up to 15 meters high, close over the stream, forming an incredibly narrow passage. It is so narrow that in places it will not even be possible to spread your arms apart, no wider than a meter. The gorge is dark, wet and dirty. The walls are actively covered with autographs of modern cavemen, but it is noteworthy that very fresh autographs are in the minority, and there is surprisingly no garbage for such an easily accessible object. I caught myself thinking that I could take a chance and try to climb upstairs, but did not tempt fate. I wonder how many wolf gates are in the land? Without looking at the clues, at least three come to mind - a sophisticated name.
Photo 4. A rare beetle will not swim to the middle of the Big Chibiy.
Photo 5. Fork. To the left - to the Wolf's Gate, to the right - to the Bear's Gate.
Photo 6. Entrance to the Wolf's Gate.
Photo 7. Through the gorge.
Photo 8. Stone corridor.
After drinking tea at the entrance to the gorge, we move on. A short, but very steep ascent awaits behind a stone corridor. After gaining 40-50 meters we find ourselves on a very cozy platform above the gorge, traces of fires are visible, but also surprisingly clean. Several fabulous bearded trees stand in the clearing, their beards are turquoise hairs of lichens that have lavishly adorned the trunks. Several pines dilute the picture with unexpectedly lush greenery, through the crowns, in the distance the gentle slopes of Pshaf are gray.
Photo 9. Rocky outcrops behind the Wolf Gate.
Photo 10. And again the woolen companion.
Photo 11. Panorama of the site above the Wolf Gate.
Photo 12. Lichens on trees.
Photo 13. Just twigs.
From the glade in the direction we take upward to the ridge. There should be a path on the map, but there is no point in bothering yourself with finding it, the autumn forest goes well and so. The rise is palpable, but not difficult. Half an hour and here we are on the ridge. Suddenly the Sun looks out, the forest is painted in warm colors, pleasing to the eye. Almost nothing can be seen from the top, even through bare crowns. We walk a little along the ridge and stumble upon a fresh stele, again dedicated to the events of the Second World War. It turns out that we are at a height of 456, which passed from hand to hand three times during that war, and each time a dozen, two, three, and four fighters parted with their lives in the Pshaf forests. Near the stele there is a table and a bench - we are having tea again.
Photo 14. Panorama on the Pshaf ridge. Forest, forest, forest.
Photo 15. A modest view to the north-east.
The return journey begins from the top. Again, the path appears only on the map and we have to go down a rather steep ravine, moreover, littered with various forest debris: branches, foliage, fallen trunks. And while we, like turtles, checked every step on the descent, our woolen companion began to freak out, as if mocking to cut zigzags along the slopes of the beam, only the foliage flew out in clubs from under the paws, going into the skid of the dog's ass - disgrace, and that's all! It seemed to me that while we threw a hundred, another meters along the beam, he wound several kilometers, running back and forth.
Photo 16. In front of the Bear Gate.
Photo 17. Rocky outcrops.
Photo 18. Driftwood covered with mushrooms.
Photo 19. The way back through the forest.
Photo 20. Clear evening in Chibiya.
We went straight along the gully to another gorge, the Bear Gate. They are not so impressive, but they are also interesting. Bearish ones are wider and shorter at about the same wall height. A few frames and soon we return to the fork, which I wrote about just above. Well, then in 40 minutes we walked merrily to the car, drank tea on the path and returned to Krasnodar before dark. In total, the entire trip took one daylight, of which only four hours were purely navigable, and this with all the teas, photographs and other mattress.
