Müller Ice Cap Daily Report Wednesday May 28

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Daily Report for 28 May 2025

Another both snowy and windy day here in our camp, but still very festive as we celebrated Richards birthday, with banners, balloons, cake, games, dinner, port wine, movies and of course birthday songs in both English and Danish! For the latter, Richard chose the following “instruments” for us to imitate: Tents flapping in the wind, snoring and finally, our small but noisy alarms for deterring/startling polar bears. All in all, a nice day despite of the inhospitable weather outside, which did demand our attention every now and then, when the drifts tried to creep into our main structures, or wind gusts almost took away an outhouse as well as a panel for our freezer. Anyhow, winds started subsiding after dinner, and we all hope this trend continues, so we can dig out camp and cargo, and groom the skiway tomorrow morning. We really want the two planes now on standby in Eureka to come here as soon as weather permits!    

 

What we have done today:

- Kept essential equipment running in camp despite wind, snow and snowdrift.

- Celebrated Richards birthday.

- Camp members in Eureka have continued organizing cargo flown out Monday.

 

We are 8 in camp (Etienne, Iben, Rebecca, Richard, Nicholas, Tessa, Julien and Bo)

We are 5 in Eureka (Alison, Jaime, Nerilie, Fei and Anais)

 

 

Alison Criscitiello and Bo Vinther.

 

Wx at Müller: Snow and snowdrift all day. Winds peaking at 23kn in the late afternoon with gusts to 34kn, then gradually decreasing to 14kn, all day from between 190 and 210 deg true. Temperatures between -14C and -10C.

 

Caption: Richard, Nicholas, Bo, Julien and Tessa, all busy playing a game of submarine under the banner and balloons put up to celebrate Richards birthday.



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