Thursday, December 02, 2004
The deep freeze continues
Well, today we went out despite the weather. The temperature was -15 but the windchill brought things down to -60. How crazy is that, we were out there working. Well, this raft was even more blown in than the last one and it basically took three hours of digging to get it out of the drift it was in. Check it out:
As you can see it's a bit past sunset... except for the sun isn't rising right now. So, for the better part of the day it's just over the horizon like this or a bit brighter. So, we chipped and dug and shoveled, all six of us, and three hours later the raft was uncovered and we were ready to tow it. Here Loda and Mike make some last minute adjustments to things before the big move to the center of the lake. The big difference between today and Tuesday is that today there wasn't nearly as much blowing snow. You can see in the background one of the Kuparuk field pump stations.
So, finally we pulled the raft out of the hole and out onto the lake where we chased the center of the lake with a frozen gps. Braden and I both tried to warm the screen up and it really killed me having to take my gloves off to heat up the screen with my bare hands. Having goggles that kept fogging up was one thing but hoooeeeey, it's chilly out there with the wind going. So, here we are pulling the raft out:
Well who knows what tomorrow will bring other than being totally tired again! Until tomorrow...
As you can see it's a bit past sunset... except for the sun isn't rising right now. So, for the better part of the day it's just over the horizon like this or a bit brighter. So, we chipped and dug and shoveled, all six of us, and three hours later the raft was uncovered and we were ready to tow it. Here Loda and Mike make some last minute adjustments to things before the big move to the center of the lake. The big difference between today and Tuesday is that today there wasn't nearly as much blowing snow. You can see in the background one of the Kuparuk field pump stations.
So, finally we pulled the raft out of the hole and out onto the lake where we chased the center of the lake with a frozen gps. Braden and I both tried to warm the screen up and it really killed me having to take my gloves off to heat up the screen with my bare hands. Having goggles that kept fogging up was one thing but hoooeeeey, it's chilly out there with the wind going. So, here we are pulling the raft out:
Well who knows what tomorrow will bring other than being totally tired again! Until tomorrow...
