She emerged from the family yurt under a red blanket like an accused prisoner.
"There was a yurt on the property where my old boyfriend was living, " she said.
He said there was often more of a personal touch associated with the small yurt and tipi sites.
In the morning a Kirghiz horsemen appeared outside my yurt, materialising from the early mists to invite me to a wedding.
It would already have arrived as we are all forced to knit our own lentils and make yurt soup for dinner.
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They also offer a variation, known as an alachigh, which is similar to a yurt but used by nomads in northern Iran.
The family organising the games are busy putting up a second yurt for visitors, which fills up as the evening wears on.
The organization recently learned that a Mongolian livestock farmer has hosted over 100 CouchSurfers in his yurt in the capital of Mongolia.
But if you do not want to pack your own tent or food to overnight in the wilderness, head to Rock Springs Backcountry Yurt.
At one stage during the interviewing, a Russian soldier angrily knocked the microphone out of my hand, saying we did not have proper accreditation to be in Alkhan-Yurt.
Sheltered and hidden away at a bend in the river, shaded by trees, stands a yurt in one of the most beautiful locations in a country of beautiful locations.
Similarly, the polaroids I gave to family of a father and his daughter repairing their roof in Nepal and of children in their yurt in Central Asia were very much appreciated.
Round midnight antique trucks arrived to carry the revellers home to outlying encampments, their headlights dancing away into the darkness while I made my way back to my cold yurt past the lake brimming with moonlight.
In the tribal world of Chechen politics, people tend to have local power bases (Mr Kadyrov's was his home village of Tsentoroi, Mr Saidullaev's is the town of Alkan-Yurt) but often lack wider support.
Post pampering, compare notes with other hardcore skiers at the Argenta Pub over a pint of beer or glass of wine before slipping on snowshoes for a short trek through a lantern-lit forest to The Yurt, where you can treat yourself to a five-course meal, prepared right before your eyes by a private chef.
My daughters and I managed to rouse ourselves one afternoon after skiing at Moonlight Basin to go to the spa and one night to take a Sno-Cat ride two miles into the back country in the dark for an excellent dinner (tenderloin and mashed potatoes followed by chocolate fondue) in a big, heated yurt, courtesy of Moonlight Dinners.
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