The trip to CTAM was a success. Our goal was to service the Sabrina and Lettau AWS sites, to install two new sites and to remove three sites out of Megadunes. We had 11 days to accomplish this. We had good weather and great pilots and managed to get all of the work done in 7 days (3 flight days).
As you can see, the scenery at CTAM was incredible. The sky was clear and blue almost everyday (I think that we only had one day of overcast skies). The temperatures were fairly warm. I'm not sure what it was outside, but my tent ranged anywhere from 31 deg F to 85 deg F. The tent could get quite warm in the evenings when the sun hit it just right. Although, when it was time to get out of my sleeping bag in the morning it was closer to 31 deg F. Talk about difficult to get out of bed.
On Sunday (everyone's day off - no flights), Jonathan and I took a hike. The camp has a great rec route that has been flagged by mountaineers for everyone's use. Most people use this route to take a snow mobile up to an exposed area where you can find 2 million year old fossils. Unfortunately, since we walked the route we did not have enough time to make it to the fossils, but we did see some incredible mountains views along the way (the hike goes up on a ridge from the camp).
The picture below should give you an idea of how far away from camp we were. The little dots in the middle are the tents and temporary structures of camp.
There were a lot of interesting projects out of CTAM. One group was removing dinosaur bones from an area on Mt. Kirkpatrick. A couple of years ago, two new species were found in this area. Here is a link on the discovery of the plant eating dinosaur (the second half of the article). The other dinosaur is a meat eater that look similar to a T-rex, but has what the scientists described as a "shovel" on its head.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1056189.htm
We were able to see some of the samples that were recovered. I am not sure what bone this is, but I'm sure that it fits somewhere into the big puzzle of the skeleton.
As you can see, the scenery at CTAM was incredible. The sky was clear and blue almost everyday (I think that we only had one day of overcast skies). The temperatures were fairly warm. I'm not sure what it was outside, but my tent ranged anywhere from 31 deg F to 85 deg F. The tent could get quite warm in the evenings when the sun hit it just right. Although, when it was time to get out of my sleeping bag in the morning it was closer to 31 deg F. Talk about difficult to get out of bed.
On Sunday (everyone's day off - no flights), Jonathan and I took a hike. The camp has a great rec route that has been flagged by mountaineers for everyone's use. Most people use this route to take a snow mobile up to an exposed area where you can find 2 million year old fossils. Unfortunately, since we walked the route we did not have enough time to make it to the fossils, but we did see some incredible mountains views along the way (the hike goes up on a ridge from the camp).
The picture below should give you an idea of how far away from camp we were. The little dots in the middle are the tents and temporary structures of camp.
There were a lot of interesting projects out of CTAM. One group was removing dinosaur bones from an area on Mt. Kirkpatrick. A couple of years ago, two new species were found in this area. Here is a link on the discovery of the plant eating dinosaur (the second half of the article). The other dinosaur is a meat eater that look similar to a T-rex, but has what the scientists described as a "shovel" on its head.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1056189.htm
We were able to see some of the samples that were recovered. I am not sure what bone this is, but I'm sure that it fits somewhere into the big puzzle of the skeleton.
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