We are so excited to have our native visitors from the village of Kivalina. The helicopter just left to go pick them up. I called the village on the satellite phone and spoke with Stanley, the elder who is coming and Tia, one of the two students.
Bill helped me set up a nice Northface VE-25 four-season tent for the students. Inside are two comfortable Thermarest sleeping pads and two brand new sleeping bags. The students will be the first people to use them.
Here is the Northface four-season tent we set up for the students. This is a really rugged tent that wouldn't be out of place in a base camp on Mt. Everest! Hopefully it will keep them warm. The researchers just came back from the excavation shaking with cold. They say it's very close to snowing up there!
We made this comfortable tent for the students, including inflated sleeping pads and brand-new sleeping bags in a Northface four-season tent. This should keep them cozy despite the wind and chilly rain.
They'll have to cross a small section of the braided river to get to camp from the helicopter landing pad so I asked them to bring rubber boots. We all pretty much wear rubber boots all the time because even if it's not raining there's a lot of water in the brush.
The visitors should be here in 20 or 30 minutes. I'm excited to get to know them. I'll send another journal with photos this afternoon. If you have any questions for the villagers from Kivalina or the archaeologists, send them using the "Ask the Team" tab at the top.