Kamchatka Trail

In central Kamchatka, the peninsula's mountain ranges enclose a broad valley through which the Kamchatka River flows north. Volcanic heights and forested slopes rise above the river and its tributaries, while snow and cold shape travel through the uplands. The valley forms a natural corridor through the interior of a peninsula otherwise divided by rugged ridges. Its rivers supported the Itelmen communities who lived here before Russian expansion.