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Sunday:
We staged some more equipment at the base, got the lidar installed on the rim for the profiling group (heavy lidar!) then went vertical at near. we got to 40 ft by the end of the day.
Thanks to Steve Atkins who helped with the heavy lifting of the lidar!
Dave Whiteman arrived and is ready to stage all crater equipment on Monday.
September 16
Today was spent meeting with Dave Whiteman, Sebastian, and Brad Andes to determine helicopter ops which will begin at 7:30 AM tomorrow (tuesday).
All the staging was completed for the helo ops, and equipment was hauled to rim and near.
Attempts to continue going vertical at NEAR were thwarted by nasty thunderstorms in the area, so we gave help to Lou at the 449 site.
September 17
Helicopter ops went off without a hitch on tues. and we finished deploying all the caches by 11:15.The anchors at RIM went particularly well, and look fabulous!
Portable biffies were delivered.
We even had an opportunity to go vertical in the afternoon and have reached 70 ft high at NEAR.