Greetings from analogue Selene at MDRS. The skies were definitely darker and more ominous today. As a result I held off on starting the MAST EVA until the weather radar's and satellite imagery showed me that I was in for a rain free spell.

Today I recorded the north east fork of the eastern end of Cactus Road, thus completing the Cactus Road data acquisition for Project MAST. Then I headed north up Lowell Hwy to a place Don Foutz had shown me last Tuesday after our return from the Sagan Street assessment. We drove past the HAB and up Lowell Highway to a spot he said was a 4WD trail on the BLM maps and that crews were using it (as 4WD trails are legit for exploration). He asked me to document it for Project MAST and to add it to the MDRS Roadmap.

Upon inspection it proved to be a very well used trail and the views to both east and west from the top of this plateau are beautiful. Although I would have preferred a sunny day, the weather forecasts were getting gloomier and the number of remaining days to gather MAST data is diminishing.

It does not go all the way through to Cactus Road as indicated on Topo's. The twenty years of rain since the Topo's were recorded have cut a small but too deep to be passable gully.

Upon return to my sickbay room at Hanksville base, I opened communications with ETC Paul Graham. We discussed at length a name for the new road. We currently have three MDRS roads named for famous American scientists, three named for famous European scientists, but none named for a Canadian space pioneer. We reached the conclusion that the founder of Canada's space program Dr. John H. Chapman was the best suited candidate and thus this 4WD trail now bears the name of "Chapman Way" to honor Canada's most prominent space pioneer.

All together 209 MAST data images were captured today. Tomorrow I will attempt to find the proper entrance to Hubble Canyon, off of which the road name D.A.H. Mistake (Don and Hugh's Mistake) because Don thought it was Hubble Highway last year and it led us to the most hair raising descent into Hubble Canyon ever attempted by an MDRS exploration team.