| It was still after noon by the time we emerged, and at 12:53 Sasha and I were waiting for Lena to emerge from the local shop so that we could catch the bus. |
| At 13:37 we were off the bus and on our way down the path leading to the dam, and admiring the scenery in daylight. |
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| Looking back along the snowy path we were following. |
| Then I scampered across onto the snowy bank that I had just photographed so that Lena could take my picture with the scenic background. |
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| Then Lena wanted a turn, although this one seems to have turned out a little blurred. |
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Then we continued on down the track toward a railway bridge, with the
dam construction that Sasha and I had climbed the previous night visible
in the background.
I managed to catch a train just passing over the bridge, so it was clearly heavily used. |
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| We clambered up the bank onto the bridge and used it to cross to the other bank. |
| A better view of the dam construction as seen from the railway bridge. |
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| Sasha leads the way down a rather steep and snowy set of steps down from the other side of the bridge. |
| Followed by Lena, who managed to retain her footing, thus failing to provide anything more interesting to photograph... |
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| At 13:54 we were back at the dam construction Sasha and I had climbed in the dark the previous day. |
| Five minutes later we were all on top of the structure admiring the view. |
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| At 14:03, the view looking back at the railway bridge we had just crossed, again caught with a train starting to cross. |
| Lena wanted a portrait taken on the platform.. |
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| At this point, after five attempts with which Lena wasn't happy with her expression, she agreed it was just getting steadily sillier the harder she tried... |
| So she settled for this changed pose.. |
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| Here I am on the structure at 14:10. I wanted a bit more of the metalwork in the picture to give a better indication of what we were standing on. |
| At 14:20 we are still scrambling over the snowy steel structure. |
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| I think Lena is just showing off for the camera here.. |
| At 14:30 we were continuing along our track. We decided to try to find a way back to Natasha's without having to retrace our steps by following the shoreline back in what appeared to be the right general direction. |
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| The track led us through a more remote part of the village, and we were not sure that we wouldn't eventually reach a dead end that would force us back the way we had come. |
| But the scenery was interesting so it seemed worth the risk.. |
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| At this point we had found a road with a car on it, so we were pretty sure that we were going to be able to get home this way. |
| At 15:02, looking back towards the lake as we are about to find ourselves back on the main road we had been looking for. |
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| At 15:26 we were well on our way home, and decided to have a break and take advantage of the thermos of tea that we had carried with us. |
