Today was a difficult day. To start off, it was raining. It damped our enthusiasm down a little bit and we got sincerely fascinated carving wooden spoons 
It turned out that all of our volunteers have a very different understanding of style, it would be interesting to compare the spoons made by people of different groups separated by 100 kilometres 
So, the spoons and loooots of talking saved the situation.
The launch of the preserve came today to take the tick away for tests, we do hope that the tick was not an infection carrier. In the evening it stopped raining for a while, and the volunteers got the chance to start working Despite the fact that we didn’t have much time, we have done a lot – check this out: the first group was clearing and marking the trail, besides the guys built two bridges in ‘Russian style’. The second group built a catamaran in the rain to make a 4 km trip over Baikal to their new camp place. After settling down on a sandy beach, the guys made an exploration of the trail to Frolikha and made a 500 metres shortcut on their way back. The third group built 2 kilometres of the trail through the forest and hills to the viewing point. And finally, the fourth group has finished building and marking the trail to the Bear Beach in Khakussy (by the way, the name of the beach is absolutely just – there are lots of bear traces – and we don’t only mean their tracks. Gosh, the bears must be eating a lot! ).
That seems to be it for today, which, I repeat, definately was not easy
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