Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Notes from Toolik
Well, we made it up without to much hassle...
Not to worry, we got pulled over, Doug was driving, and swapped out the tire without to much troubles.
The first day of the trip was pretty intense. After visiting our first site the helicopter had trouble starting so we ended up cutting the day off way early to get it fixed. Oh well. In the meantime at our first station and snow survey spot apparently some little critter didn't get the memo about ongoing sensitive research and took a few liberties with our precipitation bucket.
So the weather's been marginal the whole time. Yesterday Doug and I did 16 snow surveys all over the place. It was a full day. I couldn't believe the pilot could fly with the contrast so low and all the flat light but we did okay. Here you can get a bit of a taste at a sport where Doug's snow surveying. See how low the cloud ceiling is and how gray everything is... yuck.
Oh well. We're still playing it safe and cruising through the snow surveys. Maybe if we're lucky we'll be out of here in a few days. Well, if things aren't to hectic maybe I'll post something fresh tonight.
