Today was great weather for flying, and the Basler arrived from SFJ at 11AM. After finishing the last packing and having lunch, the generator and communications were shot down and…
The weather forecast for today showed high winds, so we were prepared to stay indoor and wait all day. Instead, the wind dropped and we could finish the last tasks…
Lots of smaller tasks accomplished today, but maybe not the most exciting news. We do, however, have some photo documentation from the outside world. What we did this Wednesday: Disconnected main water…
Today, we continued closing down camp: several of the large sledges when up on winter hills, the caterpillar and one of the Pistenbullies were parked in the mechanics garage, skiway…
This morning we once again were visited by the Polar 6 Basler, this time both as a cargo and passenger shuttle. We waived goodbye to Pia, Johannes, Maria, Nora and…
Terminating the shallow drilling program at GRIP This weekend we worked on differentiated schedules. The ICELINK people were busy to finalize the GRIP leg of their program before leaving for other…
The deep drilling is now closed down and the last items are in boxes ready to be shipped to Kanger. The shallow drilling at Site GRIP 2026 S1 is ongoing…
Today the deep drillers logged the borehole down to 25m depth to investigate how inclined the casing is in the top part and how large the kink at 15m dept…
Today the drillers finally succeeded to get through the various blockages in the casing, enter the drill liquid and lower a modified version of the drill to 125m depth. Driller’s…
Driller’s report: ‘Today was an epic day! We made more progress down hole than any other day before. In a final attempt to gather information from beyond the 56m blockage,…