We did drill Kenny Lake School finally! Kenny Lake is most southern part of the permafrost boundary in Alaska. We try to drill several spot around the school since last year. However, we never found permafrost. Also the area has lake sediments with glacier till which extremely difficult to drill for us. The site, we drill in this time, is still school property and relatively tall spruce forest. We start drill mid night around 2am until morning. Permafrost seems warmer condition but including beautiful 30cm of ice layer depth at 1m below ground surface.

Kenji is back from Asian trip and Tohru success and back 2007 Denali expedition.
The school start a little more than a month, we start think about autumn village trips.
We will plan to visit Ft. Yukon, Northway, Circle, Dawson City, Kotzbue, Selawik…
So before we are getting busy, we look for good spot for drilling at Kenny Lake School. Kenny Lake is very tricky place to find permafrost. We expect this is one of the most southern boundaries of permafrost region in Alaska. The way go down to Kenny Lake, we saw lynx. Also we check borehole at Glennallen high school.