110 zimnik - lake Baikal: there, around and back againPart 5, Leaving "110 zimnik", Umkhay and Barguzin valley

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Leaving "110 pimnik", Umkhay and Barguzin valley, 21-23.07.2012

In the morning, we passed Birankur river and tried to "translate" it from German as "Bier-an-Kur". Strange word combination, but our free translations made some people inspired :). The road was getting better with every meter. There we have met huntsmen; they were taking a group of water tourists to Barguzin. We talked a bit, and the tourists were really impressed that we had a kid in our crew, and the huntsmen admitted that they were in doubts that my car could withstand the road. Well, it was no surprise for me, all people were having doubts, and we were making our ways.

There was a cordon where we paid 250 rubles for every single person for being in a nature reserve and picked up one of the workers to show us a totally safe way to cross Bargusin, which looked here much wider and much deeper than yesterday. If we just went straight across it, most probably it would have been fun for some gawkers and Lithuanian bikers  on the other bank, but we didn't want to take the risk and opted for the long track; the water there was just half-wheel-deep. By the way, this track is quite well shown in at least one of the videos on YouTube.

110 zimnik - lake Baikal: there, around and back againPart 4, 110 km checkpoint, geocaching and saving Rexton

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Clearing the "110 km" checkpoint, geocashing, swimming and saving a Rexton, July 20, 2012

It didn't take us long to reach the well-known stud after which this whole road is named now. It is the only stud left on the road: 110 km.

110 zimnik - lake Baikal: there, around and back againPart 3, Svetlaya and Namama rivers

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Svetlaya river, Namama river, 19.07.2012

After the hydrotherapeutic procedures, we started from Sramnaya with an absolutely healthy pilot. Soon afer that, we've seen several pretty interesting lakes which could be a nice place for a camp as well, but it was indeed too late… Generally speaking, pitching a camp at 110 zimnik is not a problem. It is not necessarily a large emerald green glade rolling in grapes full of stacks of firewood looking at a limpid azure mountain lake with taimen fish (or at least grayling) playing and splashing in it, but you can always find a place for camping.

The road until Svetlaya included parts of both real off-road "asphalt" and bogs. The other stories say that there are more boggy parts than "asphalt", but we could not find all of them. Probably the weather was kind to us. I slightly stuck a couple of times, if I'm not mistaken, and we tore off the sling in one of the places. Fortunately the hook has softly landed on my roof rack and did not hurt anything. Somehow I didn't say it to Mikha through the open window that I have been hampered by a large rock and that I can go forward without any problem already, so Gavrilov pulled harder… and the rock appeared to be stronger than the sling that eventually suffered.

That's where we wore the sling