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DUST- Update - March 11, 2005

Well, we have had a convergence of bad karma, and hopefully have most efficiently gotten rid of a snowstorm, a huge aurora, and a broken radar all in the same night.

While we waited for the radar to be fixed (it's fixed now), we kept track of the crazy ice tower on the side of the road back to Fairbanks, see http://www.alaskaalpineclub.org/IceWall/04-05IceWall5.html It had developed a serious crack on our drive out from town, and which had fallen over by the time we returned tonight.

We have high hopes for monday night; good weather is promised, the radar is fixed, and the auroral activity (which contaminates the dust data) is supposedly a localized high speed solar wind stream which may be over with by then.