Leishey stayed behind in SLC to organize things for our return and make sure the supply caches get set up behind us.

Seems the satellite connection is decent enough though. We're four days into the trip, the ecologists is... well giddy and hyper and insisting we stop anytime we see a plant or animal out here now that we're in the ashlands proper, so it's slow going.

Most of what we're seeing is desert plants, spindly and scrubby things, no grasses at all, however it's all stuff that's grown through, or in the ash since the eruption.  I'll get a list of the actual plants later since it's not anything I recognize.