On day 5, we finished Elliptical 3 in three hours. Morgan even got to use the pack raft to take points within the stream. We also helped Ted and Ellie install their sensors into the Sag. 

Day 6 was a very long day for us, we hiked over 11 kilometers! We had plans to measure and sample 3 thaw pits but only finished 2. Then we went home and took the night off to go to the bonfire at Toolik and we chatted with some pretty cool people. 

Overall, we have 8 streams completed and we met our goal for this trip so yesterday we mainly focused on helping Ted and Ellie on their project. We hit 5 of their sites to sample and install sensors. Throughout the day Ellie also had fun riddles for us and we made mystery sandwiches for each other for lunch. Then we came back to wrap things up and clean the lab and truck for group 2. We also looked at our gps coordinates from the pools we measured and our points mapped out where we measured pretty accurately. 

We had a very bumpy ride back to Fairbanks today and Jackson saw a bear right when we left. We had 7 hours to kill before our flight so we took an Uber to go to the Fairbanks Ice Museum but Jackson lost his wallet before we even got to buy our tickets. After calling a bunch of people, we took an Uber to the Polar Field Station to hunt down the van that his wallet was in. Thankfully we found it and now we’re looking for places that are open late enough to eat.