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E. M. Brock
1958
July 20 Pitt Point, Alaska
of the A.R.K. plane and therefore the little "tundra research" that could be done, led to be limited to the immediate camp area where a quick dash could be made for the plane if it were to come in to the airstrip.
Dobby Fisher, flying for A.R.K., arrived overhead around 1300 with a float plane. The weather was still extremely foggy. By radio communication we found out that he landed on "a lake about 2 miles south of the site. After much searching, hiking and wading, we found the plane. It turned out that there was only room for one, so Tim left; Arnold Schulz arrived on the plane and we transported his equipment back to the base. In the evening we took three square foot soil samples from each of two staked areas near transit I. The tops of these 24 stakes are black.
July 21 Another wasted day of waiting for a plane. Extremely bad fog conditions made it impossible for planes to land during most of the day. In the evening "Bug" Shields, flying for Wein, brought in a bush plane and we thought we were going to leave. After repeated phone calls to Barow and Cape Simpson