Transportation in the Field

photo of DC-3

 

 

 

 

We were dropped off at our base camp site in the Grosvenor Mountains by DC-3, which is also known as a Basler because it has been converted to a modern turbo-prop by the Basler company in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

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Most of our gear for our field work was dropped off by LC-130 cargo plane.

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Peter driving one of the snow machines that we had in camp for moving cargo around.

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We traveled to most of our field sites mostly by Twin Otter. Here we are putting on our crampons readying ourselves for walking on a glacier so that we can reach our sample sites.

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Pilot Jim Haffey is one of the best and most experienced Twin Otter pilots in the world. Jim worked very hard to find spots to land, and was able to get us to most of our sample sites.

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We used a banana sled to drag our samples back to the Twin Otter after finishing working on Shackleton Glacier. Peter is pulling the sled, which often had over 150 pounds of glacial till in it.

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After collecting a big batch of till samples Peter transported them to the plane in style.

 

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Kate standing in front of the Twin Otter before heading out to work on another glacial moraine.

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View of Twin Otter looking down the "runway".

 

 

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Shadow of the Twin Otter on the surface of a moraine as we circled close to the ground looking for a landing site.

 

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