A text message from Mike this morning informed me that the team is held back yet another day as weather has deteriorated into whiteout conditions. However, winds are expected to calm down later in the day. If weather improves as projected, the team will begin traversing to Saddle Camp tomorrow. Considering that the team has been working virtually non stop since they’ve arrived on the ice sheet, the (hopefully short-lived) windstorm allows them to take a bit of a much needed break!
Photo by Karen Alley, ACT-13, 2013.
The graph below, plotted by William Colgan, indicates the team’s snowmobile speeds on their traverses in East Greenland thus far:
Snowmobile speeds – courtesy of William Colgan, GEUS.
