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Ecological Trail "The Way to Clean Baikal"
(Barguzin part of GBT trail)
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Member of project
1. Becky Farguson (╩рэрфр)
2. Eva Heizmann (├хЁьрэш )
3. Juliane BU rger (├хЁьрэш )
4. Lohbeck Anne-Kathrin (├хЁьрэш )
5. Ralf Hesse (├хЁьрэш )
6. Raphael Mahaim (├хЁьрэш )
7. Uta Merzweiler (├хЁьрэш )
8. └эфЁхщ ╨рчґтрхт (╙ёҐ№-┴рЁуґчшэ)
9. ┬юыюуцшэр ▐ыш (╙ырэ-╙ф¤)
10. ─ющэшъют ┼тухэшщ (╙ырэ-╙ф¤)
11. ╟рфхтрыют ╚уюЁ№ (╙ырэ-╙ф¤)
12. ╚трэют ╠шєршы (╙ырэ-╙ф¤)
13. ╠рЁшэр ╤ҐЁґэютр (╚ЁъґҐёъ)
14. ┴ґчшэр ╤тхҐырэр (┴рЁуґчшэ)
15. ╤Ґрэшёыртр ├Ёрчфшыъютр (╤ыютръш )
16. ╤хЁуххтр ╥𥹠эр (╙ырэ-╙ф¤)
17. ┴ґЁрэ ▌ьшыш (╤рэъҐ ╧хҐхЁсґЁу)
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"The Way to Clean Baikal" project was
honored to close 2003 Great Baikal Trail summer season.
In Ust-Barguzin, on the 1st of September,
past first-graders, happily hurrying to their rendezvous with
knowledge, drove two automobiles with 17 volunteers full of strength
and energy for constructing the Great Baikal Trail. The director
of the project, Igor Mikhailovich Zadevalov,  on
account of there being no more room in the bus, attentively followed
the road from the bed of the truck.
Finally, we arrived at the trailhead - 5 km from the
settlement of Barguzin. We were to clear the trail
to Krokholinnaya Bay. In our first photograph, everyone is smiling,
 holding
their backpacks and tools in anticipation of two weeks of work,
which we could then only barely imagine. Later, having returned
from our project and developed the film, we laughed long and hard
at the differences between our first photo and the photograph
from the last day of the project. Could those tired, thin faces
really have once been so fresh and plump? Right away we should
point out that our project was essentially different from the
other five projects of 2003. Unlike the others, we did not have
a stationary base, and in two weeks we changed campsites 5 times.
The hardest part turned out to be moving our things, tools and
equipment to the new locations. BUT here I would like to thank
our men, who filled their backpacks to the limit so that we, the
women, would not overstrain ourselves. THANK
YOU!!!
We worked in two groups: the first group worked on a certain portion
of the trail with axes, Pulaski, and saws; the second group returned
to the previous day's site and with chainsaws removed from the trail
large logs, of which there was an unbelievable quantity. Many members
of our team developed considerable throwing abilities, in as much
as the projectiles were not especially small logs and trees. At
the end of the project, those who marked the trail delighted our
eyes with a "Red Square", considerably more attractive than Malevich's
[Kasimir Malevich (1878 - 1935), a Russian painter and father of
form of abstract painting known as "Suprematism". Red Square is
one of his better-known works - trans. The result of our work was
that psychologists, sociologists, restorers, potters, teachers,
economists and simply good people from Germany, Switzerland, Slovakia
and Russia, were able to improve and mark 30 km of trail. MANY THANKS!!!
We were lucky with the weather, which is surprising
for autumn. Only once were we unable to work on account of rain,
and even that day did not pass wasted.
The experienced eye of Mikhail Ivanov spotted a bear trap, and
we drank to the hope that we had saved the keeper of the taiga
from a horrible fate. On that day fate smiled on yet another animal:
a chipmunk, to whose winter diet of dwarf Siberian pine nuts was
added walnuts and peanuts, which we happily gave him. And in the
evenings by candle light in our winter quarters, we polished out
English, German,  French,
Hebrew and Russian. I would especially like to tell what wonderful
mushrooms and berries we found along the way. Every evening Emily
Aleksandrovna Buran from Saint Petersburg spoiled us with fried
mushrooms. She accompanied these splendidly by singing romances,
and in the evenings we held sing-alongs. Almost every morning
those on breakfast duty delighted us with berries. It was not
just that there were a lot; occasionally we passed entire plantations
of blackcurrants and work -- in spite of ourselves - would
stop for several minutes. Our voices quieted, and if one had climbed
a small hill, (s)he could have our satisfied faces enjoying berries,
which did not at all resemble those which we have eaten in our
kitchen gardens. By the end of the project we had clearly become
impudent and ate only the biggest, which resembled sweet cherries.
On September 12, we returned to Ulan-Ude. Now,
as we work in various places around the world, we recall our relaxation
in Zmeyevaya Bay, the banya and hot-springs, about the natural
treats - fish, berries and mushrooms - and about everyone
which made the project unforgettable.
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