The traverse to NGRIP departs
The traverse departs
The big event of the day was the departure of the surface traverse to the previous drill camp NGRIP 340 km away. The PistenBully pulls three sledges, the first with the small red round building (the tomato) used as sleeping and kitchen quarter followed by two sledges with fuel, equipment and a snowblower. The hours of departure were like preparing a family for a camping holiday – Sverrir, Lars and Anders kept running back and forth after this and that! The traverse departed at 10:30 and in the evening at 21:00 the traverse reported back that they had made 100km and spent the night at waypoint 53. In camp the permanent kitchen had reached a point where we moved downstairs again for the meals. Preparations of heating and water systems continued. The firn-gas program and the ice core processing continued. In the drill trench the long casing tubes, to be placed the first 80m in the borehole, was lowered one by one using a cable from the beams in the roof to carry the weight.
S2 (Mainly used for the European Gas Programs)
S3 (Mainly used for US Gas Progams) What we have done today:
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Casing the borehole |
Weather: overcast, -12 - 6 C, wind 10-17 knots from S, visibility unrestricted
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