Photo: Motorcycle on the ice of Lake Baikal

In 2006, my friends and I traveled to Lake Baikal in Siberian Russia. Our destination was Olkhon, an island on the lake, but as Baikal was still frozen, we had to walk across the ice. Halfway across the lake we were met by a motorcycle with a side-car, the driver of which ferried us the rest of the distance across the ice to Olkhon Island.