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Today's morning story about how was born the myth of grandmother Taganana will tell you the chief editor of "Good news" Alexander oleksyuk.

Three days wandering in the national Park "Taganay": at the top the trail came to the weather station where I met cat Vasily and caretaker of this mountain lighthouse — Sergei, spent the night and using a shelter "Taganay" came down from heaven to earth along the lower path. It was good.

Among other things learned that Calistoga grandmother — not a Ghost, told me about 15 years ago, but it is a real person, however, already deceased. But here's the thing. In the Urals there is a legend with variations about the mysterious "mistress of the copper mountain" — Calistoga grandmother or as it is called — Grandmother Taganana. They say, roams the mountain ranges of the Ghost, which is in the image of an old woman is idle tourists, scares them, makes you stray and fall off cliffs. The reality is that the road to the meteorological Station there is a shelter "Calistoga cordon", located on the banks of the river Big Kialim. Until the end of 1950-ies there appeared the village of Calistoga charcoal burners of the Upper oven. Even more likely, not a village, but a village with a hundred households, a hospital and a private school, she, by the way, on one of the photos and now it is home of the inspector of the orphanage. By the mid-twentieth century, the Upper Calistoga furnace "cooled down" — village were ordered to bow down and live a long time — the road is overgrown, the people departed.

From civilization uglezhogov there was only one school, which is home inspector Edik. He invited us to visit, which showed the Spartan way of life on duty in the shelter (the attendants are dressed for two weeks, and then change). Showed a small exhibition of the photographs have been pasted to the Wallpaper above the bed and for the most part talked about the history of the cordon. Brave carboneros in the 1930s, that black-and-white bearded tourists hugging the bend of a guitar yellow, and here is a portrait of an elderly woman.

— Who's this? — ask Edward.

— And this is the last resident of the village. When there was nothing there, she lived in his hut, here, for example, — Edik showed in the window, was her garden.

It became clear how the legend was born and why she had a completely rational basis. You can imagine the horror of tourists: dense forest, silence, stones, trees, somewhere close to go, the bears, the tourist puffing on a mountain trail with a backpack, when suddenly from behind a tree there is an old woman with a crutch. "Hello dear people, God help you," says and — oops — dissolved in the fog like the Ghost or the stone comes. Went to your garden to remove the potatoes or onion. Tourist after this meeting, if only in his mind, a horrible story about his grandmother-taganana will tell you at every opportunity... So, nothing amazing.

Died too, of course, the old woman, and the legend lives on.

By the way, her son is already too old man — until recently, worked as a caretaker at Calistoga cordon, too, from the window to his garden looked. But then due to health problems went to work closer to civilization: it is well, before the cordon is not any kvadrotsikl drive, wilderness is terrible, what happen to help the bears, but moose.

But in General, Taganay immensely good. I recommend everyone to go there, to wander. Dry breadcrumbs, fat shmat throw in a backpack and forward — the high road 25 kilometers to the meteorological station. Most importantly stick some to take — to rely on her, as on a staff, and rubber boots.

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