Fish Creek to Teshekpuk Lake Observatory and back to Inigok

Over the span of four days we travelled from Fish Creek to the fantastic Teshekpuk Lake Observatory maintained by Ben Jones (USGS) where we recharged our literal and figurative batteries for two nights.  We went to service the stations on the Arctic Coast at Drew Point and then made our way back south to  Inigok.  The bears were waking up and we saw a bunch of tracks, and the snow buntings guided our way…

Working in the flat light cloud - no frame of reference… 

Adjusting sensors at Lake 31, 10 miles south of the Arctic Ocean.

Teshekpuk Lake Observatory.

Always nice to see a snow bunting… 

Neat, but sometimes disconcerting to see these tracks…

The grizzlies are awake.

Impossibly blue sky at a repeater south of Teshekpuk Lake.

Insane vistas, like a different planet.