CryoVEx: Catching up

It has now been a couple of weeks since I wrote a very quick and short blog post in Sachs Harbor. I indicated I would write and post some blogs but really I did not have time.  Now I am sitting on the bus from Calgary to Edmonton, just a few more hours until I am home for the first time in 26 whole days and I am sure looking forward to sleeping in my own bed.  I have decided to use this time to write a post or two trying to fill you in on what I have been up to for the past 26 days, and it is harder than I expected.  The days have blurred together already so you will just have to excuse some repetition.

On Monday March 12, I met part of the team (Chris Hiemstra, Christian Haas, and Bruce Elder) at the Edmonton International Airport. We journeyed to Inuvik with First Air, one of the few airlines to still offer a hot breakfast to economy class passengers.

The team arriving in Inuvik. Photo used with permission from C. Haas.

We spent a couple days in Inuvik waiting to be picked up but there was a misunderstanding and no one sent a plane from Sachs Harbor to pick us up.  

Sunset from hotel room in Inuvik.

We ended up chartering our own plane to take is to Sachs Harbor where we spent one night before heading out onto the ice. 

Our King Air Beech Craft airplane chartered from Aklak Air that took us from Inuvik to Sachs Harbor

The team inside the King Air plane excited to finally be heading to Sachs Harbor (though not thrilled about the cost of hiring a plane for this purpose).

I have posted previously about our time in Inuvik and our trip to Sachs Harbor, here, here, here, and here.

Okay, that is enough for one post.  Since I am only 35 minutes into my trip home, I will write a few more blogs though I may schedule them to post automatically and regular intervals.