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I'm back from the

I'm back from the trip, and what a day it was. A half hour flight to Visui, and then a three hour hike through the steamy jungle as we climbed 2000' to the top of the ridge. It's on top of that ridge that MAF has a VHF repeater antenna, and we went to do some maintenance. Check, clean, repair the solar panels, the repeater, and the batteries. We had to leave at 3:30 PM to make it back to Visui and the waiting plane so that we'd have time to fly back to Shell before sunset. In the end we didn't leave until 3:50 PM, and really had to hustle down the hill to get out of there. As it was, we didn't leave the ground until 5:45 PM, and barely made it back to Shell before official sunset, sometime at 6:20 PM. After sunset you can't land in Shell, or any of the jungle s for that matter. I'll add some pictures somewhere on this site later.