Kamchatka 1997

Vadim Levin is testing PASSCAL hardware after it was held up in customs for a week.	Senior geophysicist Victor Chebrov installs CMG40-T sensor in a vault of seismic station Esso (central Kamchatka). The vault is nearly 5 m deep - the entire length of the PASSCAL-standard sensor cord was used to reach the bottom.
Digital recording system collects telemetered data from 3 stations around the vilage of Kozyirevsk (central Kamchatka).	The building housing seismic station Apacha in southern Kamchatka. Sensors are in the vault ~50 meters behind the red tractor. The resident operator Ruslan is an acomplished farmer, and a big fan of translated Star Trek novels.

The river Byistraya (Swift) in central Kamchatka, with a mostly extinct western volcanic range in the background

A lake next to the seismic station Kozyirevsk in central Kamchatka

Karyimsky Volcano, puffing smoke, as seen through the helicopter porthole. The puffs come every 15 min.

Small mountain range near Esso, central Kamchatka	A bubble of gas is bursting inside the mudpit in the Valley of Geysers geothermal area
Highway rest area a la russe	A village store in Kozyirevsk. The sign says (roughly) "goods", without specifying. Truth in advertizing.
100 miles north of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky the snow covers almost half of the area in early August	Karyimsky Lake seen from the helicopter
Vadim Levin and Jonathan Lees strive to find solid footing for a seismometer on the flank of Karyimsky volcano	Karyimsky volcano venting steam

A traditional Russian feast - pelmeni (dough dumplings) - with a Kamchatka twist: the stuffing consists of salmon.

First you grind salmon into paste. Manually...	Then everyone gathers around the table and assembles the dumplings.
Dumplings are layed out on flour-covered trays	Finaly, dumplings get boiled on a gas stove and consumed by exhausted participants