Below are a bunch of pictures from Lance's trip to Kotzebue a month ago. He spent three weeks flying around the icy, snowy, cold, windy world up north capturing Musk ox. Lance's job was to fly a biologist around and find groups of musk-ox and radio to the helicopter as to what the location of the group was. The helicopter would then dart one of the musk ox in the group and tag it with a collar, and take blood samples, check the condition of the teeth, etc. for research purposes. A biologist riding as a passenger in the helicopter hangs out of the door and shoots the tranquilizer into the musk-ox. ( A pretty exciting job!) There are some great photos here to show how much snow and wind Kotzebue had in a recent storm right before Lance arrived. There were 20+ foot drifts all over town!)