WUHAN

7,000 miles to this shadow!! They promised bad weather and furnace heat — alas nada! The eclipse was couched in two weeks of glorious trekking with Mark Troutman: Shanghai, Beijing, the Great Wall and a bamboo river raft run in the unearthly Dr. Suessy geologic karsks of Yangshou.

Mission: Longest eclipse for rest of our lives

Posse: Michael (USA), Mark Troutman, Andy Koo (Chinese), Carlos (Chinese), Jennings Maxwell Orcutt, Christopher Ergen, Michael Franken,  Rachel McFarland, Liz Dellapenna, Becca McFarland

Contact: July 22, 2009

Path: Siberia, China, Japan

Our Eclipse Base: Mulan Mountain range, 450A.D. temple

Weather: light overcast

OUR chinese ECLIPSE GUIDEs "CArlos" & "andy" led us to a most mythic site in the mulan mountain range at the foot of an ancient 450a.d. ting dynasty temple.   

WHAT A PERFECT DAY, What a CREW!  

MDA pics.