Sighting of the day: Not a Man. Not a Bird. But a Plane!

It was Ken Borek's Twin-Otter Skiplane: the very same aircraft that, only last week, airlifted half of our crew into Ward Hunt. It happened at around midday. The skiplane overflew us. Then, it clearly began looking for a place to land, a few kilometers to the north of us.

The plane tried to land at least ten times. Then, finally, it succeeded. In our opinion, it seemed miraculous that a plane could even land in this icescape wilderness. Those Pilots are real Professionals, with a capital P.

In front of us, there are three other expeditions; the incoming flight must have something to do with them. Matty McNair's expedition, traveling Supported, is due to receive a material drop, but this is not scheduled to happen until next week, according to what we've been told.

The Weber expedition is skiing Unsupported, so they are not scheduled to need a flight, either.

The flight could, of course, be an unscheduled equipment delivery, for example to replace a broken sledge; or it could be a personnel evacuation. For the sake of the other expeditions, we hope neither is the case. Here on the pack ice, we have no way of finding out the reason for the mysterious flight. Perhaps some news will appear on the Internet within a few days.

As far as our own progress is concerned, we were speeded on our way by the knowledge of a scheduled free day tomorrow. We will not ski at all. We'll just service our gear, service ourselves, and rest up. Sounds great!

All is well with the Expedition.