While driving your guide will explain you main specialties of ice-biking and give you some practical advises about ice bike technique, turning and braking. All our bikes equipped with spike tires designed for riding ice which gives a perfect grip - so cycling on ice will not be too much different from the regular one.
Ice surface at this place of western cost of Lake Baikal usually don't have much snow because of the steady winds common here, that's why this area is great for biking. Car of the supporting team will be together with biking team in a distance of radio contact, so if you will need to warm up or change clothing you could do it in the warmth of car. Main part of the luggage will be transported by car, we will bike with a light day packs only.
We will get to see several ice grottos at the bottom of the rocky shore line covered with hundreds of icicles and shiny ice crystals. A great landscape mixture will be opened for you at this part of Lake Baikal: in one day you will see Taiga woods, opened steppes, rocky cliffs and sandy beaches.

Not far from the starting point we will see a high vertical gorgeous looking rocky cape locally named Black cliff. Right next to it you could explore ancient rock drawings of Sagan-Zaba rock – another spectacular cape. Scratched pictures on the white rock showing figures of dancing Shamans, horse riders shooting from the bow, birds and deer – this unique place has a richest collection of Baikal's ancient pictures.

Some of them are 5-8 meters deep and look like completely ice-covered caves with flat ice floor. In the deepest corners of those grottos you could find amazing ice structures and crystals remanding flowers or gems – don't miss your chance to take a memorable pictures of this rare phenomenon!

This picturesque place has some remains of the ancient civilization - stone build walls around the top of the mount. This is archeological monument of Iron Age and a sacred spot for the local Shamans.

In the evening we will reach cape Orso with huge ice grottos and set up a tent camp in one of them right on the ice surface. This place is a natural shelter and it makes a campsite more comfortable and picturesque. We might will enjoy stunning views of the sunset across the glowing ice fields of Lake Baikal.

By the midday we will reach cape Cross and southern extremity of the biggest island on Lake Baikal – Olkhon.

Here, we will turn into the straight which divides island from the mainland and cycle to the biggest local settlement – Sahurte.