It has been a productive two days in Kangerlussuaq! Yesterday we succeeded in getting a single twin otter flight into our ACT11-B site. This flight cached the majority of the core boxes needed to drill our three cores. However the pilots found the ice surface to be extremely rough and were only able to put down about 4 km from our barrel cache. Today, we had planned a second twin otter cache flight but unfortunately a storm has closed in on the southeast and a landing was not possible. We have managed, however to get the remaining equipment onto herc pallets and we plan to traverse with all remaining gear. The herc arrived today and we are planning a departure around 2pm local time tomorrow! The weather looks good, and we are hopeful that we will be able to get in.
From now on out we will have no email contact and will update the blog though Annie via satellite phone whenever possible. Tomorrow we h
ope to enable the real-time satellite tracker which will post our location on this website: http://www.datatransport.org/act/monitor. The website will post our location, elevation and speed every minute in real-time! So this is a good way to keep track of our progress. Wish us luck!
Evan
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