Yesterday's photos
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jayHere are a few pictures and annotations from yesterday.
During yesterday's abortive traverse, I managed to get a couple of gravity stations done. One of them was at newly-named Clark Point, adjacent to a new inukshuk raised a couple of weeks ago.
Sometimes it occurs to me that it's ironic, given that I'm not a fan of SUV's back home in urban settings, that I'm going off on journeys into virgin territory on all-terrain vehicles and a Humvee, the ultimate SUV. It's an off-roader's dream, probably wasted on me. It's fun on the ATVs, but they're a way to get work done. But here's a picture (with Jeff Jones climbing) of the sortie yesterday:
Later in the day, we drove to the edge of Inuit-owned land and then hiked deeper into the crater. The shocked and altered rocks there, and sediments leftover from it being a crater lake, result in much more life than outside. There are meadows of flowers and Arctic willows, moss and lichens, and abundant muskox and caribou droppings. Here's my annual flower picture (saxifrage):
Two of the three boreholes had filled with mud and sediment, and I could only go down as far as I could drill with my hand drill. But the other was open and clear (yay!) and I got a good 3.5m deep temperature profile (note the thermocouple plugs):
Walking to the last borehole, we ventured near the nest of a pair of Arctic terns, who decidedly did not like the dog venturing nearer, or us... they dove and swooped and shrieked, as shown here...
Or here, partially captured as it swooshed past my head:
Leaving the crater meadows, we'd picked out a high overlooking peak as an inukshuk site... a bit arduous to get up there (driving ATVs over boulders while on a 40-degree slope. But Chawla Peak now has its memorial, complete with a sealed capsule in the base.
As we were finishing placing the 100-200 lb boulders, around 1am, a distress call came in on our radio -- since it was responding to an emergency, we could take our ATVs into IOL (instead of hiking ;). A quick traverse across the crater led us to the group of four, on foot walking away from their disabled ATVs.
Today... rain. Cold. Snow predicted in a few hours... I may pre-emptively change my flights to Saturday instead of Thursday, both for more data and to make the connection in Resolute.
During yesterday's abortive traverse, I managed to get a couple of gravity stations done. One of them was at newly-named Clark Point, adjacent to a new inukshuk raised a couple of weeks ago.
Sometimes it occurs to me that it's ironic, given that I'm not a fan of SUV's back home in urban settings, that I'm going off on journeys into virgin territory on all-terrain vehicles and a Humvee, the ultimate SUV. It's an off-roader's dream, probably wasted on me. It's fun on the ATVs, but they're a way to get work done. But here's a picture (with Jeff Jones climbing) of the sortie yesterday:
Later in the day, we drove to the edge of Inuit-owned land and then hiked deeper into the crater. The shocked and altered rocks there, and sediments leftover from it being a crater lake, result in much more life than outside. There are meadows of flowers and Arctic willows, moss and lichens, and abundant muskox and caribou droppings. Here's my annual flower picture (saxifrage):
Two of the three boreholes had filled with mud and sediment, and I could only go down as far as I could drill with my hand drill. But the other was open and clear (yay!) and I got a good 3.5m deep temperature profile (note the thermocouple plugs):
Walking to the last borehole, we ventured near the nest of a pair of Arctic terns, who decidedly did not like the dog venturing nearer, or us... they dove and swooped and shrieked, as shown here...
Or here, partially captured as it swooshed past my head:
Leaving the crater meadows, we'd picked out a high overlooking peak as an inukshuk site... a bit arduous to get up there (driving ATVs over boulders while on a 40-degree slope. But Chawla Peak now has its memorial, complete with a sealed capsule in the base.
As we were finishing placing the 100-200 lb boulders, around 1am, a distress call came in on our radio -- since it was responding to an emergency, we could take our ATVs into IOL (instead of hiking ;). A quick traverse across the crater led us to the group of four, on foot walking away from their disabled ATVs.
Today... rain. Cold. Snow predicted in a few hours... I may pre-emptively change my flights to Saturday instead of Thursday, both for more data and to make the connection in Resolute.
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