May 30 and 31: “A beautiful early summer weekend”
Saturday started windy and cloudy, but during the day the clouds gave way to sunshine, the wind decreased, and suddenly it felt like summer here at GRIP with low winds…
Saturday started windy and cloudy, but during the day the clouds gave way to sunshine, the wind decreased, and suddenly it felt like summer here at GRIP with low winds…
Today, the wind slowly started to decrease in strength as the day progressed, and the drifting thus stopped around noon. Hence, outside work got somewhat easier, even though the wind…
As the wind from the north continues for the 3rd day in a row, snowdrifts are starting to build hampering our operations. Nevertheless, in a camp like this, there are…
Yesterday wind picked up, and completely as forecast we had another windy day today – indeed if the forecast is correct winds will only relent when we approach the weekend.…
Today, winds started to pick up already an hour or two after breakfast, and thus the solar panel work had to be aborted just as Charlotte was ready to put…
Winds are supposed to pick up a bit again Tuesday afternoon, so we are all trying to make the most of todays less windy weather for all the things we…
Saturday started out as any other day here in camp, with everybody going about their business getting more and more camp infrastructure up and running. Snow blowing trenches, constructing drill…
With the all the critical cargo from Skier 41 in camp, everybody are now busy getting the various items organized, and put into good use. The drillers now have their…
Today was our final chance to get critical cargo as well as frozen food to camp, before the ski-equipped airplanes leave Greenland, only to return some 3 weeks from now.…
Tomorrow is the last chance for us to get critical cargo to camp before the ski equipped Hercules transport planes (that we call Skiers) from New York Air National Guard…