Finding Neverland - Into the ice camp

So I am finally back from the most amazing trip I have made till now. I felt I should pen this for the less fortunate souls who may never manage to go there...:-) I cannot claim to have been there since our stint on the ice camp was short, actually really short. Nonetheless, it was a trip to the most fascinating part of this planet. Over the next sequence of blogs I shall try to relive the experience for you lesser mortals....;-)

Our flight from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay was at 9:06 am with the Boeing 737 having pretty much a clear flight all the way through. We stopped at Barrow (the picture below is the Barrow airport), the northern most tip of USA and the same flight continued onto Prudhoe Bay.
We reached the airport at Prudhoe Bay at 12:40 pm. At Prudhoe, we went over to the ERA hanger from where we caught our twin otter (10-seat Cessna) to our location on the ice camp. There were only 4 passengers on the flight, with a snow mobile and huge drum occupying the remaining section of the plane. The cruising altitude for Cessna was about 5000ft and the whole trip took about 1.5 hours. The only thing that strikes you about Prudhoe from "up above the world so high" is the criss cross of oil pipelines. I noticed only a single road but atleast 20 to 30 pipelines.
Finally after a loop around the camp, we touched terra firma!!!