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Trail Building Links Lake Baikal and Tahoe Lake

WEDNESDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2006

Russia - Trail building around Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest lake in the world, was initiated by famous writers who walked around it.

Work began in 2003 and three years later, the Great Baikal Trail offers a picturesque view of the lake, making others say that it is similar to the Tahoe Rim Trail in Lake Tahoe. Indeed, there is a connection between the two trails since there have been exchanges between the Tahoe Rim Trail Association and the Great Baikal Trail Association through the Tahoe Baikal Institute.

Volunteers around the world travel to Siberia to help in trail building. Twenty to 30 crews work at the trail two weeks at a time. About 227 miles of trail were already finished but still there are about a thousand miles more to build.

Natalia Luzhkova, the international volunteer coordinator, said that both lakes are beautiful and pure. “We should learn about Tahoe because it was developed from the beginning and now they want to preserve it. We should learn from those mistakes,” she added.

Read more about this news story at www.sierrasun.com.

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