DC dropped two loads of palletized gear before heading over to the Illinois Valley airport. That way he’d be close to hand if they needed anything else dropped in. One pallet landed in the rapidly expanding clearing. The other pallet overshot and hit in the woods, but the chute was in the clearing when it collapsed so they were able to retrieve and pack it without any damage. Then they started unloading and getting organized.
Krista led the second team into the same clearing. Baker snagged himself in a tall larch and had to use a let-down line to get himself out of it. So that gave the first-flight team bragging rights over the second. It didn’t last long because Maribel, the second plane’s cargo master, nailed both of her pallets of gear into the clearing. Good trick with how damn small
