As the mechanic’s garage was taken down today, EGRIP camp has no more structures fixed to the snow. Now, everything is on ski or sleds, or in boxes waiting to…
Today, we took down our carpenter’s garage. This is one of the two red garages that together with the black dome have defined the EGRIP camp skyline for ten years,…
Although our garages, our cargo line and storage in our snow ramp appear to be relatively empty, cargo is accumulating in the staging areas around our sled trains. We have…
A probably last Saturday evening at EGRIP was celebrated. We had very nice food prepared by Anna Maria and Florian. It was a nice and peaceful evening. After the GEUS…
Again, a lot of things happened today, almost at once. Since the morning, we have been giving weather updates to both 109th in Kangerlussuaq and to the GEUS Twin Otter…
A lot of things happened today, almost at once. The Skier today brought the last items to complete repair of the aircraft here. They gave us fuel so we are…
With 21 people in camp, the dining room is rather busy. It is almost like when the deep ice core drilling was in full swing. The 109th team is progressing…
Yesterday, the Skier had really trouble getting up to speed and our skiway was bumpy as well, so it took several attempts to get airborne. But they left with all…
After the successful location of an intact GRIP borehole, all main objectives of the science traverse were reached. There was a bit of worry about whether the 109th were able…
Some really good news: Saturday, the traverse crew reported that they found the GRIP borehole casing at 4.5 m depth. They lowered a borehole camera and found that the casing…