Finally arrived Tanzania’s capital last weekend!

 

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I am leaving for Africa tomorrow!! We will go to deepest borehole at the summit!! and huge area  of spatial temperature measurements at over night. We will have a limited time at the summit under the full moon light!

Sounds crazy but what will be fun? if we don’t dream it and without move to action… Remember when you see next full moon, that’s the night we are drilling around Kilimanjaro crater and on the glacier!!

I bring some secret tool for altitude operation. Report for you later!!

I put some slideshow for the nature of Africa today!!! Thank you!

sunrise at Kilimanjaro from Kenya side

Star trace… Kilimanjaro is located almost equator that the south celestial pole almost lying at horizon!!

Kilimanjaro and the Southern Cross

Ruwenzori (The mountain of the Moon), third highest peak in Africa. White Nile starts from this glacier.

Mt. Kenya, second highest mountain in Africa! Unique vegetation

Blue Nile, Ethiopia

Dune at sunset, Sahara

I am leaving for Africa next week!! then continue to climb the Peruvian Andes in October. So I will try but not much chance to connect internet! Please stay tuned here. It will have nice picture from the mountain!!

Today, I would like to announce snow machine trip in next spring!! about three years of silence, we are finally start again!! a lot of new 4 stroke models in the market!! We will use new Skidoo Tundra 600cc to traverse Canada!! It will take about 40 days in 4500km!! It will be fun trip in most of March 2013!!

Red dot shows existing our network in Alaska and Yukon, Canada. Canada has not much villages in North, that will be good for us to go all!!! Red line will be 2013 snow machine route, Yellow line will be 2014 kite and machine route, the complete in 2015 (white route)!!

frozen lake near Shaktoolik

near Koyuk

Backland River!!

 

Live Webinar from Kili!!

• Live! from Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa – Event One

Wednesday, 26 September 2012 at 9:00am Alaska Daylight Time [10am PDT, 11am MDT, 12pm CDT, 1pm EDT]

PolarTREC teacher John Wood is joining GLOBE scientists, students, and fellow teachers on an ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. The event will take place before the team summits. We will describe what the conditions for expedition are like as well as highlight the permafrost research taking place on the mountain as well as hydrology and mountain ecology.

• Live! from Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa – Event Two

Monday, 1 October 2012 at 9:00am Alaska Daylight Time [10am PDT, 11am MDT, 12pm CDT, 1pm EDT]

PolarTREC teacher John Wood is teaming up with GLOBE scientists, students, and fellow teachers on an ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. The event will take place after the team summits – hear from the teachers and students on the expedition including pictures from the trek!

For people to register for the event, they must have this link:

http://www.polartrec.com/polar-connect/register

Seasons -snow melt to summer-

 

Time lapse video to Washington Glacier

Fall color in the valley, snow on the mountain along the Richardson HWY near Summit Lake

Beautiful time of the year with pipeline!

Strong chinook wind toward to the interior yesterday! That was making beautiful arch!!

The way go to Valdez, it is definitely good place to stop here! Every time deference

I was in wet Valdez this weekend to see Kilimanjaro team! And to maintain data loggers, and boat!