SummerAtSummit

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Here I am at 3am once again. Wrapped up a little packing, but there is still much more to go. Keeping the GB running until midday Wednesday to correspond with a couple overflights that are taking place as part of the ARCTAS program (sorry, too tired to do a link, so you’ll have to look for it yourself)

I’m definitely ready to go, as it’s now been more than 5 weeks up here. I can’t wait to get a day or two to myself instead of having to watch instruments and do other things all day long. I figure I’ve been putting in 14-hour days on average…while most of the time there isn’t too much exertion involved it’s still draining. At least the 24-hour sun has kept me charged up. I feel real good for someone who has had about 12 hours of sleep over the past 3+ days.

Some teachers and a few students showed up today, which would have been exciting enough but the plane needed to use rockets to help it get off the soft runway. Of course I was working and didn’t have my camera with anyway so no pics from me. I’m hoping to get a couple from someone else and if I do I’ll post them. I had to give a brief talk about what I’m doing up here to the people. Three small groups of folks who had just deplaned and were doing their best to be interested. I’m planning to be out and about more later today, so I’ll document some of the activity as I spend my last day at Summit. In the meantime, here are some more images:

A portion of the tangled mess I had to clean up today…I had already removed a couple things before getting the idea to document it.

The ability to make quality snow steps…yet one more of my talents. I’ll wrap up with a couple shots of ice that built up during our brief period of fog and southwest winds. I didn’t have a good item to use for scale reference, just my small stick drive. Have a good night/day -Jeff