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Suusamyr plateau
The high-altitude venue, and the honest caveat is that it barely appears in the public flight record — the registered flights cluster at Chon-Tash and Too-Ashuu instead. Cloudbase over the plateau is reported around 5,000 m and the valley floor at about 2,200 m, which is why pilots talk about it; we list what is claimed and what is logged separately and let you weigh them.
| Where | Between the Kyrgyz and Suusamyr-Too ranges, 3 h from Bishkek over the Töö-Ashuu pass |
|---|---|
| Launch alt. | valley floor 2200 m (claimed) |
| Cloudbase (claimed) | 5000 m (claimed) |
| Aspect | multiple; both sides of the valley work |
| Access | Paved highway through the valley, dirt tracks to the launches. Töö-Ashuu tunnel closes in bad winter weather. |
| Season | June to September. This is the high-altitude venue and it does not work early. |
| Retrieval | Moderate to hard. The valley itself is easy, side valleys are not, and from the far end a pickup is 90 min to 3 h. |
| What it is for | The high-altitude venue, and the honest caveat is that it barely appears in the public flight record — the registered flights cluster at Chon-Tash and Too-Ashuu instead. Cloudbase over the plateau is reported around 5,000 m and the valley floor at about 2,200 m, which is why pilots talk about it; we list what is claimed and what is logged separately and let you weigh them. |
| Sources | Public operator pages describing Suusamyr as the high-altitude XC venue with cloudbase up to ~5,000 m — secondary, unverified by us; Our own ground operations in the valley; XContest flights registered in Kyrgyzstan, seasons 2025 and 2026, checked 2026-09-29 |
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