|  Large  -- Medium Alex and Ralph are setting up Ralph's time-lapse camera to watch ripples move at our first stop.  |  |
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|  Large  -- Medium Looking at the dune crests to the north.  |  |
|  Large  -- Medium Jani and her students start up the side of the dune with that big orange box, which contains a ground-penetrating RADAR.  |  |
|  Large  -- Medium Alex, just below the crest.  |  |
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|  Large  -- Medium It's sheer brute force lugging the thing up the crazy dune.  |  
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|  Large  -- Medium Almost there . . .  |  |
|  Large  -- Medium Made it to the top!  |  |
|  Large  -- Medium Ralph breaks out the Kite-cam.  |  |
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|  Large  -- Medium Kite partway up.  |  |
|  Large  -- Medium Alex, through saltating sand.  |  |
|  Large  -- Medium Kite reaches the level of the dunetop where I'm sitting.  |  |
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|  Large  -- Medium Kitemaster Ralph.  |  |
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|  Large  -- Medium Looking down the farside of the dune, with the ground-penetrating RADAR crew at the way distance.  |  |
|  Large  -- Medium Beautiful patterns of sand blowing in a thin layer above the dune.  |  |
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|  Large  -- Medium Megapanorama.  |  |
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|  Large  -- Medium GPR crew trudging back, now.  |  |
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|  Large  -- Medium Jani & Titus.  |  |
|  Large  -- Medium Very thin line of magnetite grains indicates where the dunecrest was probably overnight.  |  |
|  Large  -- Medium Okay, now I'm trudging down into the interdune on the far side from the car.  |  |
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|  Large  -- Medium A lot of gravel in the interdunes, and not a lot of loose sand.  |  |
|  Large  -- Medium Digging underneath for a sample.  |  |
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|  Large  -- Medium Ralph and Alex, in a ripple sea  |  |
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|  Large  -- Medium Back along my path.  |  |
|  Large  -- Medium Driving back after day 1 along the interdunes.  |  |
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|  Large  -- Medium Approaching the research station after day 1.  |