Does It Freeze In Winter

I've heard from tourists thousands of times as a guide to Baikal's work since the mid-1990s: "A Baikal is freezing? Or an indiscretion: "The winter on Baikal is very cold! Who's driving here? I'll try to dispel the myth about the inability to rest on the coast of Baikal any time of the year, except summer.

The toughest time is January. All over Siberia is the strongest freeze, the warm forests are covered by a snow jacket, and the mystery is becoming the kingdom of the Snow Queen. Baikal freezes gradually and finally covers the ice only at the end of January. There's no way to walk on this ice, someplace to ride on horses, but the real is safe, the thickness is only in February and March. An amazing sight comes to man! Baikal, as a sculptor, creates, on the rocky shores, frivolous arc palaces and coffins from a transparent and shiny inner ice. It builds abstract glass monuments along the coast, thoros, especially unusual at sunset, when the sun comes to play and transfusions with all the thought colors.

Baikal ice is amazingly visible. Even a few metres from the shore through it, you can see the cameric bottom. Sometimes when you travel ice on snowstorms, quadrocycles or a vessel on an air pillow, you can stop at a snow-free ice pancir and look in the water under ice. First, blacks under your feet cause fear, especially if you can imagine a kilometre depth that only separates you from a meter of frozen water. But then there's an amazing feeling of flight, a steaming over the cold.

Mostly, the Baikal ice is all brushed by small cracks, but sometimes it's possible to meet large cheeks. Their origin is due to currents and impute temperature variations: the same crack at different times of the day will be different. And in January and February, you can often hear and... ♪