A lot of things happened today, almost at once. The Skier today brought the last items to complete repair of the aircraft here. They gave us fuel so we are…
With 21 people in camp, the dining room is rather busy. It is almost like when the deep ice core drilling was in full swing. The 109th team is progressing…
Yesterday, the Skier had really trouble getting up to speed and our skiway was bumpy as well, so it took several attempts to get airborne. But they left with all…
After the successful location of an intact GRIP borehole, all main objectives of the science traverse were reached. There was a bit of worry about whether the 109th were able…
Some really good news: Saturday, the traverse crew reported that they found the GRIP borehole casing at 4.5 m depth. They lowered a borehole camera and found that the casing…
The ERC Synergy Project Green2Ice project (Green2Ice.eu) met one of its main objectives of the season on June 7th when we found the casing of the GRIP borehole. The GRIP…
The 109th have delayed their arrival to EGRIP at least until Sunday, and this means that our traverse crew, now at GRIP, probably cannot be picked up at Summit before…
At EGRIP, we are beginning to build piles of equipment on the surface. We have to empty our garages and empty our underground storage cave. The equipment will be sorted…
We are packing equipment down and staging it for loading on traverse train; but we also expect 12 persons from the 109th to repair the air craft parked here. When…
The days started fine. Weather was good, and people at EGRIP were eager to get going. And many things were done. However, at the first cup of coffee in the…