Today was a very special day in many ways! First of all, Skier 52 brought 12 new crew members to camp, and secondly one of these crew members is Steff, for whom this time was his 50th year on the ice! Steff started his ice experience on the DYE-3 station in 1976 developing and testing the first version of very ice core drilling technology we still use today. Hence, a true ice coring legend has arrived here at GRIP! Thirdly, we all said goodbye to Carlos and Jonathan, who has been at GRIP since the very first day being part of the camp opening crew. And then one of the incoming crew member had his birthday today. Hence, we celebrated Anders P. in the usual camp manner with cake and the Danish birthday song where 3 “instruments” should be chosen. The choices were rather untraditional, but the now quite big camp did its very best to imitate the sounds. Otherwise, the day went with briefing and housing the new crew members, as well as starting to break down all the cargo brought to camp by Skier 52. Furthermore, Thomas once again had to groom the skiway in anticipation of tomorrows flight mission. The incoming and outgoing drill teams also found time to have a common chips meeting in the dome reviewing the video evidence of the casing, showing the issue of the accumulating fiber glass fragments.
What we did this Friday:
- Received Skier 52 with 12 new members of camp, cargo and 5170 liters of fuel.
- Said goodbye to Carlos and Jonathan who left camp with Skier 52.
- Started breaking down cargo from Skier 52.
- Gave tour of GRIP camp to ANG DV.
- Inspected and corrected all skiway flags.
- Briefed and housed new camp members.
- Started handover between incoming and outgoing, Chief driller, Cook, Doctor and Field Leader.
- Marked Steff’s 50 ice anniversary.
- Celebrated Anders P.’s birthday, “instruments”: casing breaking, Pistenbully and Penguins.
- Held chips meeting with all drillers in the dome.
- Groomed skiway.
- Continued work on storage trench.
- Continued work on cable duct to food Weatherport.
Ad 1: New crew members are: Steff, Sune, Nicholas, Eliza, Will, Tim, Pia, Shari, Carsten, Jørgen, Anders P. and Anders S.
Weather: Cloudy morning turning more and more sunny as the day progressed. Temp. from -23C to -13C. Wind 2-12kts, turning from E to NsssE during the day.
FLs, Bo Vinther and Anders Svensson
