We used time today like we were living on another planet - one with a day more like 30 hours long. First, we woke to the familiar hiss of snow sand on the back of the tent, and at this point we're able to say, oh, it's about 22...
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Strong katabatic wind went up to 30 knots or so. Wind chill temperature dropped -40F. Well.. it was another tent day today. We spend whole morning hearing snow hitting our tent, blowing wind. Just hearing those make me so cold!! I spent whole morning crowed into my cozy sleeping...
We got back in the field today after three straight days of tent! Basically ANSMET has a "tent day" when the weather does not permit us to search for meteorites- which means it is either completely overcast (sometimes called a whiteout) and we can't drive the skidoos because...
Hi everyone - we had another tent day today. I woke up at 7am, hoping blue sky with mild wind. I got out after getting morning hot chocolate and realized that it's still so gray out there with snow blowing.. So I will summarize our day. Our two...
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We had another tent day today - this time winds are up at mid-high 20s (knots) and temps a little below zero. It's so beautiful to look at all the wind forms around camp, from the large, soft dunes with ever forming ripples, to the hardening sastrugi between the...
Tent dayThis morning the outside temperature was -9F, ~ 12 knots wind and blowing snow. These condition forced us to spent most of the day in the tents reading, listening audiobooks, chatting and napping. At 6 pm John and I went out for a dinner at Jani’s and...
Today was our first "full day search" day of the season. It means we went out all day long, ate lunch out on the ice field. It was pretty cold and windy this morning. It was around -7F when we left our camp. Plus around 15 knots...
Today we got out for a full day of searching - we're so proud of ourselves! :) Between waiting for field party members, and then flights, to come in, plus having a spate of bad weather, it's been hard for us to get out all day. But we finally...
Today was pretty windy day. Two twin otter flights came to our camp, dropped the rest of gears we were waiting for. Two ski-doos (now we all have very own ski-doo!), more drums of fuel, more food boxes. We were actually getting low on some food items, so...