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<\/a>View of Jang Bogo Station from the deck of the Araon<\/p><\/div>\n
We are allowed to get off the Araon and walk on the ice.\u00a0 It’s a good thing that Justin remembered to get ice spikes for our shoes.\u00a0 The sea ice can be very slippery in spots, but good traction elsewhere.\u00a0 We are staying on the Araon for another couple of days.\u00a0 This is difficult because we are anxious to get to work.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The Araon docks on the ice and we can get off to explore<\/p><\/div>\n
Walking about on the ice is amusing for about an hour.\u00a0 We quickly learn that anything interesting (seals,\u00a0 icebergs, glaciers, etc) is out of bounds.<\/p>\n
<\/a>View of Jang Bogo Station from the ice beside the Araon<\/p><\/div>\n
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The station’s car has these really cool snow tracks installed.\u00a0 Make it go great over the ice, but the turning radius is severely impacted!<\/p>\n
<\/a>A really cool retrofit of a car for use on the ice<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On the 8th of December, the Araon reaches its closest approach to Jang\u00a0 Bogo station and docks in the ice.\u00a0 We are about a half mile off shore, and there is a small iceberg stuck in the sea ice almost between us and the station. The full list of daily waypoints are located in this… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-18 03:44:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}