by Achim Heilig The elevation at KAN-U is the is the lowest of all the sites we visited on the ice sheet at 1840 m asl (6037 ft asl), which consequently experiences the largest amount of melt. The ~3-hour, 65km (40 mi) traverse to KAN_U was a relatively smooth journey. Due to strong katabatic winds that morning, we… Read More
A phone call from Babis on the ice sheet yesterday evening informed me that the team has traversed from Dye-2 to first science site KAN_U with great ease. This 66 km / 41 mile stretch of compacted, bumpy snow took forever to drive on our snow mobiles two years ago, having to strap and restrap boxes often, even though… Read More
