Logbook: Barrow to Nuiqsut, entry 1: She sits in a cold plane on the Barrow tarmac

Still on the tarmac outside Era Aviation in Barrow. Temperature somewhere at what I would guess to be somewhere between -15 and -20 Fahrenheit, wind blowing. Hard. Even in the plane it is cold – but that's usually how it is when you climb into planes up here this time of year. They are cold. But as the engines spin the props they generate heat that is funneled into the fuselage and it slowly gets a little warmer. It was dark in the plane, too, darker than it looks in this picture. It was darker outside as well.

It's kind of amazing how this iPhone 5s works in low light. 

Logbook: Wasilla to Nuiqsut, ultimate goal, Cross Island, entry 5: approaching Nuiqsut

Approaching Nuiqsut. Kuukpik River (Coleville) below. 

Logbook: Made it onto plane to Nuiqsut - just barely

No time to explain. Fly out of signal quick - if not already.

Logbook entry: leaving Anaktuvuk Pass, enroute to Wasilla - I missed the beautiful smile, but I did get the hand at the controls

Just south of the village, we flew over this little creek gulch where the

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