| BLAST sticking out the door to try and get the TDRSS antenna in a position to see the Satellite. |
| The view of the pad, Friday afternoon. |
| BLAST sticking out the door to get the TDRSS antenna in a position to see the Satellite. The TDRSS antenna is the greenish cylinder on top of the gondola. |
| The view from across the pad through the snow. |
| Mark inserts the dewar warmer: a soldering iron tip on the end of a long rod. |
| Mark inserts the dewar warmer. |
| Helium plume. |
| Helium plume. The whiter part near the bottom is a flame of liquid helium. |
| Matt blows off some cryogens. |
| The view between the mirror and the mirror cover. |
| Mark inserts the dewar warmer again. |
| A jet of liquid nitrogen. |
| Liquid nitrogen spewing from the cryostat. Jeff thought it was empty. It wasn't. |
| Nitrogen droplets in the air. |
| A close up of the nitrogen jet. |
| Liquid nitrogen spewing from the cryostat. |
| Nitrogen plume. |
| Nitrogen droplets. The droplets always precede the plume, since the plume is just condensation in the air. |
| Nitrogen droplets. |
| Looking down the road from the balloon base. Hotel Dagobert can be seen centre, behind the satellite dishes. On the left is the uncompleted addition to Hotel Dilbert. |
| Saturday. Our first view of the top of Radar Hill since Monday. |
| Matt finds some dubious Swedish food: Smorgastorte. |
| A close up of the Smorgastorte. It appears to be some sort of cake with eggs, lemon, shrimp and vegetables on top. We didn't buy any. |
| On an earlier shopping trip Enzo asked for juniper berries. Having no idea what that might be called in Swedish, Marie and company returned with Dragon, which turned out to be tarragon. We consulted my dictionary and learned juniper was Enbär, so they actually were only one spice off from the right one. |
| The fake sun heating the cryostat. |
| Gaelen and Marco fix up one of BLAST's "wings". |
| Enzo works with Chris Field and Don Bunt of NSBF to try and debug the TDRSS problems. |
| No Climbing on Inner Frame. |
| Marie fixes the scoop. |
| Walking to dinner. |
| Gaelen managed to stick a dart in the wood strips between the ceiling tiles. |