One week left...

[jay]

My birthday started (not dawned, since there isn't one here) with miserable weather... 30-knot winds, freezing rain and bits of snow and sleet. The tent rattled all night, but didn't leak. Sleeping was hard, I woke up every hour or so.





My tent's the pointed orange one towards the right, above the faulted dolomite exposure.

Given that the spacesuit's still in Ottawa, and the gravity meter likewise, and that we don't have permission yet to enter the Inuit-owned land in the crater (where the boreholes are), there wasn't much I could do today except take inventory of equipment, charge batteries, and make traverse plans for the next few days. Later it stopped raining, and we now have patches of sun... but the wind is a nuisance. It hindered the greenhouse folks from erecting their windmill (they're going to try to keep it going through the winter).



After lunch we heard that the suit and meter had finally cleared Canadian customs... then we lost our network link. It is still down, so this will probably get posted late tonight or Wednesday.

Otherwise... people stayed indoors mostly, given the weather. We got some Humvee parts yesterday, so it was jacked up and repairs made.



I may use it next week on an overnight traverse to get gravity data, if I'm lucky...

But... only one week left here, and I'm not really started. The borehole temperatures should only take a half-day, given SD's new probe. But gravity needs 5-10 hours of traverses, and the spacesuited geology tests take a half-day each. Weather will probably intervene, and the equipment in Ottawa won't be here until Thursday afternoon at best. So I'm getting stressed about meeting my goals here...

Still, the cake was lovely. And I have a present to open -- a small package from SD at work.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

When I saw the wheels on that orange behemoth, my first thought was that they rolled, and I thought, "I wonder how they manage the lurching!"

Silly me.