At EGRIP, the crew continued to excavate the sled and the ski under the dome. It is a lot of physical work to cut and remove hardened snow blocks. But…
So, today just past Noon, the science traverse departed SSW and disappeared in the horizon. The team has now split.At EGRIP, we are now: Josephine, Louise, Frederik, Paul (109th), Thomas,…
The decision yesterday to wait another day to allow for fixing the radar has paid off. Today, the radar people could happily announce that the radar is ready. The traverse…
Let me begin with this: The weather is really fine. It’s cold, but not so windy, and it’s sunny. Now to the rest: We had planned for the traverse to…
Building up the traverse train and solving last-minute issues. As you go down along a check list, there is almost always an issue which pops up. Today, it was the…
The train of the science traverse will consist of a Pistenbully tractor, two heavy sleds: one with kitchen and dining room and generator, another with a weatherport with bunkbeds for…
First of all, preparations for the departure of the science traverse are going well. The full sled train with a Pistenbully, two heavy sleds and a plastic sled was coupled…
Weather today was good for flying, albeit a bit too warm for ideal flight operations. Skier 21 arrived just before Noon, and the crew proceeded with offloading our Pistenbully. In…
Tomorrow we expect the final flight to EGRIP. Hopefully, we will receive the Pistenbully that will pull the science traverse 400+ km from EGRIP to the former GRIP site along…
Weather is strange these days. It is warm and there is a constant wind from the SW, and the wind speed varies a lot over the day between 5 m/s…