{"id":364,"date":"2015-05-29T23:24:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T05:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/?p=364"},"modified":"2015-05-29T23:37:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T05:37:13","slug":"final_days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/2015\/05\/29\/final_days\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Days at Summit Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ACT-15 team is spending its last few days at Summit Camp where their work is nearly complete. \u00a0They are finishing up some core logging where they&#8217;ve\u00a0taken over the sauna room (without the stove running, of course) and using it as a cold-room for logging ice cores\u00a0&#8212; I&#8217;m impressed that they actually have\u00a0a sauna room!<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Summit Camp is the &#8220;luxury hotel&#8221; version of the various research stations on the Greenland ice sheet.<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Fantastic meals are prepared daily in the Big House:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summitcamp.org\/static\/images\/bighouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summitcamp.org\/static\/images\/bighouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"509\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Big House serves as the station hub, housing the kitchen, dining facility, communications office and shared warm space for researchers and staff. Source: summitcamp.org<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Each person is assigned their own Arctic Oven tent with a cot:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 686px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summitcamp.org\/static\/images\/tentcity\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"278\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most visitors to the station sleep in Arctic Oven tents. Each double-walled tent houses one person and their gear. The tents are unheated, but warm up in the sun. Source: summitcamp.org<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alaskatent.com\/images\/uploads\/Jays-tent-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arctic Oven tent at Summit Camp. Source: Alaskatent.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The temperature at Summit Camp\u00a0has been\u00a0colder than at previous locations. \u00a0They have not seen temps above 0\u02daC since their arrival:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summitcamp.org\/static\/images\/status\/weather\/weather-tempout-lastweek.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"187\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside temperatures recorded over the past week. Source: summitcamp.org<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mike reports that the crew is tired but in good spirits and ready to be done. Being ahead of schedule should allow them to catch a flight to Kangerlussuaq a few days earlier than originally planned. \u00a0If weather cooperates, the next C-130 flight out of Kangerlussuaq is on June 6, which means our U.S. crew could arrive at their final destinations by June 7.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the C-130&#8230;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Take a look at this fascinating video of a Hercules C-130 ice landing in Greenland. \u00a0These pilots do an amazing job of safely transporting our scientists oftentimes in hazardous\u00a0conditions!<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R_JpQ2gar5U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: YouTube (molly mollyisagooddog)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACT-15 team is spending its last few days at Summit Camp where their work is nearly complete. \u00a0They are finishing up some core logging where they&#8217;ve\u00a0taken over the sauna room (without the stove running, of course) and using it as a cold-room for logging ice cores\u00a0&#8212; I&#8217;m impressed that they actually have\u00a0a sauna room!&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/2015\/05\/29\/final_days\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[41,38,37,5,40,39,25],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summit-camp-2","tag-arctic-oven","tag-c-130","tag-firncover","tag-greenland","tag-ice-landing","tag-skiway","tag-summit-camp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 15:47:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}