Today was a very long day in the field but very very productive! We woke up this morning a little earlier than usual and did our normal routine of getting breakfast and packing up the truck with our field gear. We then got gas and headed out at around 7:45am . We made our way to pull off point 10 where we unloaded our stuff and started our treck into the tundra at 9am. After an hour of hiking about 2km we reached our first site of the day, Thaw Pit 11! We very efficiently did the flagging and measurements in about an hour and a half, record time! We then moved on to the next site, Thaw Pit 13 which was another 400m walk, ate lunch there and took a rest before starting the measurements. This one took a lot longer to flag out because the sketches were difficult to decipher but we managed and also did this site relatively quickly. We packed up things and walked another 600m to get to Elliptical pool 8, our last site of the day. By then we were all pretty tired but kept pushing and we’re able to get it done in a decent amount of time. We all worked really well together and gave 100% effort until the end. We made the hike back to the truck and after about an hour got back to it at 7pm, so in total we spent 10 hours in the field! We were the first group to complete three sites in one day so I’m very proud of us for all the hard work we did today and thus far. After the last site we visited a couple of Ellie’s sites and got samples. We attempted to get a sensor out at one of them but were unsuccessful. By the time we got back to Toolik it was 9pm. We ate dinner together in the dining area and roughly planned for tomorrow. We were all exhausted by the end of it but did a very good job pushing through these last couple days in the field!