Helo schedule still delayed, decision made to cancel today’s field flights, and just request the one cargo flight. It makes their schedule better for everyone else, and we were running out of time to get there and back.
Everyone but me hiked up to scout out lidar collection locations for a couple of hours. I didn't want to chance it in my FDX boots, because I was afraid of getting blisters and having to suffer through them even after my hiking boots arrived.
34 outside, 54 inside the kitchen.
Michelle and I made progress organizing the data log sheets and input data to correlate, and made some new examples for everyone to use to make ingest simpler.
No cargo flight yet, so rice, potato, dried tomato and bean soup for supper.
Everyone put up a flag: U.S, Poland, U of MN, Science Museum of MN, and of course, AGIC, our project.
I recorded a movie of them while everyone was gone and put it to a 2001-like soundtrak, and it was a big hit over dinner.
Big news was on the hike Ryan scored a poop bucket from an un-manned seismic station shack a couple of miles away, so, we are halfway there for the poop tent facility.
Our group was unexpectedly issued a satellite phone, so I called home to let Nancy know everything was ok, but it kept cutting out, so not much of a conversation.
For supper jumbalaya: rice, dried tomatoes, dried onions, water, salt, peppers, canned and dried potatoes, chili beans.
I took a few photos from camp today. Here is a peak along Bull Pass that is over 5,000 feet high, and over 4,000 feet higher than our camp, with our tent in the foreground:
There is a little pond below our campsite that was not there just a few years ago. Enough sand blew up in a winter storm to "dam up" the pass, and now water collects and seeps under the sand:
Looking the other way, across Wright Valley, to an old caldera, higher yet:
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