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Introducing Baikalsk
Lakeside Baikalsk is the site of a huge, controversial Baikal-polluting pulp mill which gives the town a faint but unpleasantly pervasive perfume of decomposing cellulose. However, the mountains that rise abruptly behind town offer the region's best snowboarding (www.worldsnowboardguide.com/resorts/Russia/Baikalsk/) and skiing at the very active Gora Sobolinaya Resort (baikalsk.irk.ru, in Russian). The complex has a handy left-luggage office (per day R80) as well as modern ski-lifts (per hr/half-day/day R150/200/300; 10am-5pm) which cost double at weekends. Equipment rentals range from R200 to R1000 for ski-boot-pole sets or R500 to R750 for snowboards.
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Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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