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Journal
Sullivan J.
1762 Wainwright, Alaska → Barrow, Alaska
25 June (cont) Fickes (pilot) gone to Wainwright village
and to an out camp and should return
for us in 3 hours or so .
26 June Wainwright, Alaska
0115 Piper woke me up in the hut mumbling
that Fickes should be here in a few
minutes. We walked out to the landing
field (our gear had been dropped there
at 2330 last night). Visibility good in
the immediate area and around the
village, but misty and overcast in-
land (30-40 miles from station).
Fickes came in around 0145 - had gotten
to the village (where the & anthropologist
is now located) but had not made
the outcamp.
Flight back - very smooth - more visible,
a number of glaucous gulls and Piper
saw an arctic fox. Lee had moved
into the shoreline most of the way up,
(Fickes had seen a certain amount of
open water just offshore on the way down).
Most of the tundra clear of snow between
Barrow and Wainwright. Flew over
Barrow village about 0240 - about 20
natives stood in a group waving at us
- just outside an old house.