Müller Ice Cap Daily Report Tuesday April 8

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 Daily Report for the 08 April 2025

The first truly isolated morning in the Müller camp. The Basler has left us, and will move from Eureka, Resolute to Iqaluit today. Our first goal today was to finish connecting the two kitchen tent, make a kitchen and dining area in one of the tents, and a work and internet tent in the second with room for parkas, boots and more.

It worked really well and this evening we are enjoying a warm and comfortable evening sitting on chairs in front of a table at 20 deg C. Pure luxury

What we have done:

- Connected the two Arctic oven kitchen tents with a tarp.

- Installed a kitchen, dining table, internet café and clook room.

-Arranged all the outdoor cargo

- Placed the main generator in a popup tent and installed the battery

- Moved and setup sleeping tents

-Had the AWI Webasto running overnight on solar cells

-Washed hands and dishes for the first time in a week.

-Worked on repairing the EGRIP Webasto

10 in camp (Ali, Dave, Dorthe, Emma, Etienne, Grant, Jamie, Kevin, Shari and Sofia)

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen

Wx at Müller: Blue sky changing to overcast and light snow. Low wind changing to 8 km from SW. Temperatures warming from -33 deg C at midnight to -20 deg C at 9 pm


Caption: Moving Grant's Arctic Oven tent to the tent camp


Caption: Dinner in kitchen tent 

Caption: Etienne opening the EGRIP Webasto for maybe a repair


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