July 22+23, 2023

Saturday Mission day

Beautiful iced tracks on the skiway by Skier 61.

After the excitement Friday and the good luck that the Skier did not make it Friday, we were very ready for a mission this Saturday. The Skier arrived to camp at 13:40 local and the coordinated actions of lifting the 40 ice core boxes to the surface, building the ice core pallet, driving the Flexmobil onboard, loading the ice core pallet, defueling from the Skier to the EGRIP fuel tanks, showing the camp to our guests from Arctic Hub and two from the Skier crew, preparing lunch boxes for the Skier crew and handling communication and weather observations went well. Skier 61 took off in the first attempt with a load of more than 20.000 lbs and strong cross wind.
Well done and thanks from EGRIP. See the beautiful tracks from the Skier on the skiway. Also, a congratulations to Sverrir for preparing the skiway so well.
We said goodbye to Steff, Trevor, Derryn, Nan, Martin, Chiara and Charlotte – we will miss you. Hello to Sune, Josephine, Louise and Jeppe – great to have you here.

What we did during the weekend:

1. Skier 61 came to EGRIP.
2. Goodbye and hello to outbound and incoming EGRIP’ers.
3. Removed bunkbeds and content of weather ports 7 and 8.
4. Prepared EGRIP bedrock press release.
5. Groomed skiway.
6. Finalized mapping of the surface position of the 16 m deep borehole.
7. Closed the double walled snow pit.

Weather Saturday and Sunday: Saturday, groundfog in the early morning. Lifting to be a mostly overcast day with light snowfall. Wind increasing from calm to 14 kt (gusting 20 kt) from WSW turning to NW. Temperatures between -13°C and -3°C.
Sunday, groundfog in the morning lifting to an overcast day. Wind from 2 kt to 7 kt from WSW turning to W. Temperatures between -13°C and -1°C.

FL, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen