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At the Bella Coola hangar, hiker deployer teams arrive to collect instruments, digitizers and gear. |
| Enroute to the hikers' dropoff point, the team finds four bears along the way, and a fox too. |
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Randy Keller (OU) supervises the requisite DEET spray-down before the hikers head into the woods. |
| Sending off the hikers: Gaelle, Erin, Shelbie, Grey, Alex, Humberto, Andrew (local guide) and Randy Keller (one of two drivers; Dave Thomas, the photographer, is the other driver). |
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When geologists say they're "working in the Field," sometimes this is what that means. |
| Meanwhile, the boat crews are busy deploying stations along the fiords. |
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Audrey and Todd get a station deployed on a cliffside. Some of the sensors had to be plastered to the rock, as there was no way to bury them in the usual manner. |
