Wind in the face, or six days skating on Lake Baikal

Prehistory In autumn 2006, I caught the eye of promotional fares of Siberia. Sale was very "sweet"! Particularly attracted its price (3800 USD. Round trip) tickets to Irkutsk. I'm tempted to buy tickets 6 of his comrades, and from October to February, we lived in anticipation of a winter lake. As we accumulate information about Lake Baikal winter I came across an article by Alexander Tokarev and Oleg Steps on their winter journey to Baikal ice skating. That it was a sensation! I was ecstatic! The idea of ​​traveling to skate for long distances I was very impressed. Firstly, it is fully consistent with my internal mood of the autonomous multi-day trip to beautiful places, and secondly, it was something new. And it is not for nothing that I have a few years earlier, plunged into the world of mountain and ski touring, pondering on this topic: