{"id":674,"date":"2016-05-08T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/?p=674"},"modified":"2016-05-08T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T03:16:35","slug":"stormed-in-at-dye-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/2016\/05\/08\/stormed-in-at-dye-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormed in At DYE-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FirnCover team traversed from Saddle back to DYE-2 yesterday in lower visibility during a snowfall &#8211; but not in very dangerous conditions. With GPS guiding the way, and the ability to see the rest of the team around them, they did arrive safely approximately\u00a0four hours later. The ride was very smooth with fresh powder on the ground, and was described as\u00a0&#8220;traversing in a cloud&#8221;. \u00a0After they arrived, the storm intensified and are now basically stormed in for quite possibly the next day or two. Today they enjoyed some much needed down time: sleeping in, a big breakfast and relaxing card games, puzzles and conversation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_675\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-675\" class=\"wp-image-675 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/05\/WhiteOut-1024x780.jpg\" alt=\"White-out conditions in camp. Photo by Mike MacFerrin, ACT 2012.\" width=\"625\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/05\/WhiteOut-1024x780.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/05\/WhiteOut-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/05\/WhiteOut-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/05\/WhiteOut-624x475.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White-out conditions in camp, ACT 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There is little work left to do at DYE-2, which can be completed in a couple of hours once the storm lifts. The plan is to wait for a\u00a0twin otter flight to\u00a0head back to Kangerlussuaq where hot showers and warm beds await at the <a href=\"http:\/\/cpspolar.com\/project-locations\/greenland\/fieldsites\/kangerlussuaq\/\" target=\"_blank\">KISS (Kangerlussuaq International Science Support) station<\/a>. From there, seven of the team of twelve will return\u00a0to their respective homes while the remaining five will fly to the northern part of the ice sheet: Summit Camp, to continue their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FirnCover team traversed from Saddle back to DYE-2 yesterday in lower visibility during a snowfall &#8211; but not in very dangerous conditions. With GPS guiding the way, and the ability to see the rest of the team around them, they did arrive safely approximately\u00a0four hours later. The ride was very smooth with fresh powder&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/2016\/05\/08\/stormed-in-at-dye-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,9],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traverse","tag-storm","tag-traverse-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/05\/L1009374.jpg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 22:47:55","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\/674","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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}