June 17, 2024

Goodbye to Twin-Otter and hello to new field participants

The ski-equipped Norland 3 Twin-Otter waves goodbye over camp as it sets out for Zackenberg.


The GEUS Twin-Otter team stayed overnight and spent the morning installing new equipment on the AWS. At 11:25 am the scheduled Hercules skier arrived from Kanger with fuel, radar equipment and ‘Knut’s radar team’. Welcome to Knut, Andrew and Lee that will stay in camp over the coming weeks to do radar measurements in the area. Including our GEUS visitors we were 20 persons for lunch today. The skier returned to SFJ, the T-O left for Zackenberg and camp population dropped to 14 - a number we expect will remain until the end of season. We are very pleased that the skier mission turned out successful today, as the 109th are returning to the US tomorrow and it would otherwise be difficult/impossible to complete the mission. Most people have been busy with the flights today, but the intermediate drill has now been mounted on the drill tower. The drill setup barely fits into the white tent and some (ice) corners had to be cut to squeeze it in. The inclined trench has now been officially inaugurated. Who knows, maybe we will soon see the first ice core?

What we did today:

  1. Continued setting up intermediate drill in white tent.
  2. GEUS team did final maintenance of AWS.
  3. Received Skier 11 from SFJ with 3 new field participants.
  4. Waved goodbye to the GEUS T-O with 6 crew and pax.
  5. Knut’s team was installed and got their cargo sorted.
  6. Prepared for temperature logging of shallow bore holes.

Weather today: Back to nice and sunny conditions. Clear blue sky, temperatures from -17°C to -7°C. Wind 0-7 kt turning from SW to S.


FL, Anders Svensson

Promise, it will be the last airplane picture for a while, as we are not expecting any air traffic in the coming weeks. Skier 93 departing from EGRIP in first attempt on June 17 carrying all of our retro cargo.

The Latin Quarter of EGRIP camp.