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…
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…
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…
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…
Thursday was supposed to be a really special day here at GRIP, with camp receiving its first NYANG LC-130 aircraft, callsign Skier 41. However, as always when operating in the…
Tomorrow we will have our first aircraft of the season flying to GRIP, so we have all been busy getting the everything ready. Cargo has had to be ready for…
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…
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…
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.…