May 19: “Skier 22 making a flyby!”

In the afternoon Skier 22 was scheduled to land here at GRIP, bringing much needed cargo as well as frozen food supplies to camp. Due to a maintenance issue the…

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May 18: “Continuing to build up camp”

We still wait for another plane with cargo and frozen food here at GRIP, but today was not a day in the air for the Skiers, as maintenance was needed…

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May 16 and 17: “Having a Saturday on a Sunday!”

As we were scheduled to have one more Skier plane landing here at GRIP Saturday, we made the decision to postpone our normal Saturday dinner-party to Sunday. In the end…

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May 12 “Getting GRIP ready for Skier operations”

There is now only 2 days until we expect the first Skier (i.e. an NYANG LC-130) to land here at GRIP. Therefore, after yesterday’s storm we are all busy using…

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May 11:”A stormy beginning to our day”

During the night the windspeed here at GRIP increased to 37kts gusting 46kts with both snowfall and drifting snow. So a real snow storm with visibility decreasing to 50-100m and…

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May 10: “A busy weekend and a birthday at GRIP”

In our ice core camps we normally have a Saturday dinner party and a late start Sunday, to mark the end of the week and get a bit of rest.…

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