This is a view of their site from the chopper. George and Dave had a bush plane deliver their supplies to Moore Creek earlier in the season. Remember Moore Creek is the mining camp just 4 miles from them where they stayed on their first attempt to get to their site in July, 2011. They drove to Wasilla from Anchorage and took off in the chopper for their site 3 hours away. So the chopper now has to sling the supplies over to their camp from Moore Creek. When it was time to leave the chopper loaded the guys in this tiny helicopter and tried to take off. They had to unload their gas can and even throw out their 16 ounce water bottles to get enough lift to get them out. The pilot warned them he would have to tip forward quite a bit to get them out, but all turned out well. They didn't have enough gas on board for the flight back to Wasilla so they had to stop several times and pick up some gas that had been stategically placed earlier. When they got back the pilot did a scheduled check and found a belt that had a tear in it. As you can see God has been watching after these guys.
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