Baikal 2006 : A daily excursion to conquest the confluence point 56°N 110°E

 

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starting point:
The starting point of our excursion was the gravel road from Nishneangarsk to Kichera where it cross the Neruchanda creek.
we have started early in the morning from Severebaikalsk. Our time schedule has foreseen 8 hours walk for round about 8,5 kilometers through the Taiga and the hills mostly without trail - as we understand later it was a completely wrong plan.
    

Neruchanda gravel bed:
from a forest track where Sascha has brought us with his truck, we has walked up to the bed of the Neruchanda creek.
    
walk along Neruchanda:
We had a hard walk through the gravel bed of this creek, but we could nit find another easier trail.
  
decision point:
because of the forest height in left an right we could not detect the right entry to our upside valley. So we have assumed it here, because a runnel came from right direction - an indication for me that here is the valley entry. (That was the next failure, not to store some intermediate point on the GPS receiver)