Permafrost outreach 2009

A few days ago, we had big decision to make about final destination. Originally (ideally), we plan to snowmachine back to Haul Road near Jim River (Pump 5). That is about 350 miles from Shungnak. This route have a lot of benefit such as visiting 4 more athabaskan villages, snowmachine able to bring back to Fairbanks ourself (much cheaper), hot spring etc. but also very risky or expecting many stacks!!! Other idea is going back to Kotzebue. This takes 400 miles including to visit Kivalina. Shungnak is final village for separation of these two options. When I check trail condition for the Huslia from here. It is not good situations. because mainly last week's warm temperature breaks many creek ice and new snow covered by wet area...





So we left Shungnak 9:10am for destination to West!!
we rode about an hour to Ambler and immediately starting drilling. We had many technical problems today. Finally, we finish permafrost monitoring station at 1:00 pm.
We head to the Kiana about 85 miles away! Trail was mostly good. We made it about 3 hours.

Science teacher "John Nagy" invite dinner for us. We had extremely great time.