Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

Lychnis sibirica
Schizonepetala multifida, small blue mint
Hedysarum gmelinii, a pink legume
Nonnea rossica, borage, with black flower
Hieracium, sp. hawkweed
Campanula glomerata, striking blue
Hemerocalis minor, day-lily
Veronica chamaedrys
Phleum, Timothy
Triglochin palustre, grass-like rare plant
field of Oxytropos caerulea, pix, with village in background.
Hike ended at some park buildings. The park employees mostly live here and take care of
themselves, and care for the park on the side. They haven't been paid in six months.
Rhytidium rugosum
Leonod A. Malyshev
Galina A. Peshkova, vascular plants, botanists from Novosibirsk.
telmatologist (telma, stagnant water, marsh). The study of wetlands.
A hydrofoil ferry came by, it goes to Peschanya Bay daily. There is also a second one elsewhere.
Lunch.
We got off the boat about 2.00, and wandered around the dock until 3.30. Then back to the Baikal
hotel briefly. There were two Americans there, the only two seen during the whole trip in Siberia
and the Russian Far East (outside of a couple at the Khabarovsk hotel who had just flown in to the
international airport there). They were lawyers, working out some deal by which the Irkutsk region
people could trade with the Mongolians, without consulting Moscow.
Then the bus back to Irkutsk. Irkutsk is surprisingly hot, 29 o C.
I walked into town and walked through a grocery store. They still pay the cashier first and then go
get their wares. It all looked very third world, but not poverty stricken, reasonably prosperous. Lots
of well dressed young women.
June 28, Saturday.
Flight Irkutsk to Khabarovsk.
Up at 3.10 a.m. 4.00 bags set out in the hall, 4.30 departure. They provided a box breakfast.
Various delays in the airport, and flight out at 6.15 a.m. in a crowded plane, a TU154, Tupelov 154,
named for the designer. A very full plane. They served a hot breakfast of meat and rice. But the
plastic knife, fork, and spoon were so flimsy that I couldn't cut the meat and had to eat it with my
fingers. I tried to peel a small orange with the knife, and was doing pretty well, and then interrupted