Well today is our first full day in Greenland and things are going really well, except for the fact that Clement just aspirated some Perrier. Today I have begun to realize why we have been working so hard for so long, we have an absurd amount of stuff. Yesterday all of our equipment was pulled off the Herc and brought to the wherehouse. It all accumulated today in the where we were moving our gear around with fork lifts. In the photo above you can see in the yellow bag, one of our 4 tents. The core boxes that will be used to ship our cores back to NV are under the giant white tarp.
The above equipment comprises the drill. As you can see it comes in many parts that have to be assembled in the field. The total package: 800 lbs
Guess what these are? That's right, bought just for this traverse, fresh from the factory, and airlifted to Kanger. We still have to put them together.
We spent a couple hours loading the insulated core boxes with 170+ meters of core tubes you can see in the background. All of the core tubes and boxes will go into the field and once filled will remain in cold storage until a scheduled cold Herc flight later this summer. The boxes will then be transferred to refrigerator truck and driven across the country to Reno for processing. Today was lots of fun and I think we will be read for saturday!
Well today is our first full day in Greenland and things are going really well, except for the fact that Clement just aspirated some Perrier. Today I have begun to realize why we have been working so hard for so long, we have an absurd amount of stuff. Yesterday all of our equipment was pulled off the Herc and brought to the wherehouse. It all accumulated today in the where we were moving our gear around with fork lifts. In the photo above you can see in the yellow bag, one of our 4 tents. The core boxes that will be used to ship our cores back to NV are under the giant white tarp.
The above equipment comprises the drill. As you can see it comes in many parts that have to be assembled in the field. The total package: 800 lbs
Guess what these are? That's right, bought just for this traverse, fresh from the factory, and airlifted to Kanger. We still have to put them together.
We spent a couple hours loading the insulated core boxes with 170+ meters of core tubes you can see in the background. All of the core tubes and boxes will go into the field and once filled will remain in cold storage until a scheduled cold Herc flight later this summer. The boxes will then be transferred to refrigerator truck and driven across the country to Reno for processing. Today was lots of fun and I think we will be read for saturday!
The most dreaded words in the English language: Some assembly required. Good luck.
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