Two days ago the first of the containers full of drilling equipment and supplies arrived after the ~370km journey via overland convoy from Pevek. Moving freight across this roadless landscape right now is quite an endeavor. The huge trucks creep along day and night, in calm and in storm, but get bogged down in any snow drifts that are deeper than their axles. They must take turns being pulled through the tough spots by a bulldozer. When they arrive at our camp, the containers must be unloaded from the truck beds -- but this too is a challenge because we do not yet have a crane here, so bulldozers push the snow into into a ramp that is used as an improvised loading dock. The trucks back up to this snow ramp and the bulldozer pulls the containers off the truck and down the ramp. The trucks departed yesterday evening for Pevek, and we turned our attention to the container contents, and preparing them for the drill platform assembly and operation. Ice flooding is nearly complete at primary drill site D1. The pad looks great. If the weather cooperates, tomorrow the helicopter will fly from Pevek, bringing additional science crew to the camp, and two of the three ice engineers and one of the DOSECC crew back to Pevek. At the moment the wind is strong and the air temperature is -38°C, but we hope for the best.