Wednesday, December 17, 2008

North Slope news: 17 Dec. 2008

Received a call from Cameron on Tuesday night at 11:21 pm AST. He says that they are 9.22 miles WNW of the Iko Bay hut. They were dropped off on the Gas Well Road by Mark Hoffman, then they walked 3 miles that evening after being dropped off. They are going to push on today (17 Dec.), and they might even make it to the Iko Bay Hut today. Cameron said that he and Chiu had a good dinner last night in their tent and that they were warm and dry.

Below is some tracking data:

DATE: 16 December 2008

TIME: 23:21 AST

LAT: 71 degrees, 14 minutes, 30.2 seconds North

LONG: 156 degrees, 20 minutes, 07.5 seconds West

ELEV: 3 feet

TEMP: 3 F

PRESS: 1030 mb

WIND VEL: 14 mph

WIND DIR: S

CLOUD: 5/8 cloud cover

VISIB: Over 500 feet

PRECIP: N/A

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