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The good weather continued, though not quite as sunny as the previous few days, so we took the opportunity to finish our mass balance and surveying. So in the morning Jason and I headed up the hill to the upper cirque, where the last of points yet-unsurveyed were remaining. It was a bit ironic that having been here for two weeks at the start of the trip, these were the last of the points. Our GPS woes for this trip have been epic, with multiple equipment and software failures conspiring against us, exacerbated by being camped at a different location from our base station for so long. We parked the machine near our old camp and skiid up to the col, taking a few minutes to enjoy the view of Hubley Glacier and rest of the Brooks Range. Hanging off a cliff a few hundred meters away was a parachute, leftover from the 1970s air drop gone awry, and all around us were signs of recent deglaciation. I scoped new long-term photo sites in the area while Jason began skiing downhill to complete the survey. I caught up to him a few points later and we explored some crevasses along the way. Once we got back to the camp area, I disassembled our ridiculously overpriced “power station” so that we could transport it back down to our moraine camp. Jason finished up the surveying while I headed down the hill with the heavy load of batteries, trying to keep the sled from steering the snow machine, and managed to shuttle a few batteries up to camp before they broke my backpack and Jason arrived having finished the surveying. Though it took a month rather than a few days, it was good to be done with it, at least until it was time for the next survey, after snow melt.
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