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Road from Vladivostok to Magadan June 2010
Getting nearer to Vladivostok and would like to know road conditions to Magadan. Anyone been up or down the road to Magadan this year (2010)?
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This is an easy one--there are no roads between Vladivostok and Magadan.
You can seach on the HUBB for the many threads on shipping between the two cities via boat. Here is a recent one:
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...divostok-47761
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no road
Hi Motoreiter,
you remind me on my daily meetings with the secret russian police in the hotel lobby in Magadan in 2003. They had taken my passport.
One morning they showed me a map and asked me: How did you get to Magadan?
I showed them on the map.
Than the agent waited for a minute before he said: But there is no road !
And I said: Yes, I know.
Hi Kestrel,
it is very early in the season, waterlevels will be high. A better time to ride from Yakutsk (... Vladivostok ... Khabarovsk ... Skovrodino .. Tynda ..) is August ... and I remember a ferry over the Aldan river ... dont know if this runs now. I rode in August 2003.
But there are others here on the HUBB that can give you more up to date info on this route.
Ride safe
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Hi Krestel_KLR,
there is an Irish gentlemen, Oisin, he is currently, as I type (June 11, 2010) on the Road of Bones to Magadan. Besides pictures and videos, he provides very detailed information about the condition he encounters. Check the last pages of his ride report.
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Uh, I didn't say there was no road to Magadan, I said there was no road from Vladivostok. Since he seems to be asking about roads between Vladi and Magadan rather than between Yakutsk and Magadan, I didn't mention the Road of Bones.
Isn't Oisin on a GS?! On the Road of Bones, wow much braver than me!
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Isn't Oisin on a GS?! On the Road of Bones, wow much braver than me! 
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Yes, and he's got the perfect bike for it to, IMO...
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More Magadan road reports please
Thanks to all and sorry I wasn't specific about which roads from Vladivostok to Magadan. I read the Irishmans report and I'm encouraged by his report except for the rain and front tire stuff Ha. My main road condition concerns are the rivers and any washed out roads between Tynda - Yakutsk and Yakutsk - Magadan. Some advise August is the best time. If I stay on schedule travelling from Chita I will be going up the last week of June and coming back to Chita mid July.
I'm researching info on taking a boat from Yakutsk down the Lena to the Lake Baikhail area (Irkustsk) if you have any information I would appreciate that also.
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