| Good news!! The team is IN the field!! IN the Fosdicks!! The LC130 put in to the well-scouted Bird Bluff landing site went through!! The team is united in the field with just one more LC130 cargo flight to go. The rocks are in reach and the work can get underway!! (that is, after setting up tents, moving cargo from one pile to another, making a cargo line that won't get utterly buried by snow when we get our first "blow," schlepping fuel drums around, getting organized for skidoo/sled travel to the outcrops (~3 miles from landing site), and (the ever-present) continuing to take hourly weather obs that will be provided to Raven Ops in preparation for the cargo flight due to come in tomorrow!! Go, team.  |
| Here is a sat image map (PGC-generated) that shows approximate landing site and not-approximate GEOLOGY study sites. Bird Bluff, Mt Colombo, Mt Richardson and more, all within reach! |
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| Look at the weather!! With Chris and Danny taking weather obs on a day like this, there was no holding back the ANG109th. They went in for the landing, offloaded cargo and remainder of the field team (Fawna and two Tims!) and headed back to MCM. The second put-in flight with remaining cargo, a skidoo and fuel will come tomorrow!! |
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| Now its time for camp set up and cargo management. In sunshine? Are we sure that this is the Fosdicks?? |
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| bye, bye LC130. It's up to us, now!! (See? Herc in sky, above skidoo. |
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| Bird Bluff awaits -- much good to do there!! (photo credit: Joe Harrigan in 2005, for G088) |
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| Such as cordierite...beautiful euhedral crystals in granite. Aaaaaah. |
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