Müller Ice Cap Daily Report Monday May 19

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 Daily Report for 19 May 2025

A windy day here on the ice, making most of our planned work in camp impossible, due to both wind, drift and low visibility. Maybe the Canadian nature simply insists on a fairly relaxed Victoria Day for everybody, even our small population of 13 here on the remote Müller Ice Cap? Anyhow, as the winds decreased a little in the afternoon it was possible to check up on the firn-gas and shallow drilling site (our suburbs), to expedite the resumption of the firn-gas operation. As we hoped for, all was mostly well out there, just a lot of snow to clear, and a shallow drill tent in need of some re-inflation. Hence, operations will be up and running again tomorrow.

 

What we have done today:

- Made sure we have heat, power and water in camp.

- Secured and re-secured tents and items in camp.

- Cleared tent exits from snowdrifts.

- Relaxed a bit, while waiting for the wind to die down.

- Made the firn-gas and shallow drill site operational again for tomorrow.

- Second movie today, this time with amazing scenery from the Sirius Patrol.

 

We are 13 in camp (Alison, Etienne, Iben, Rebecca, Fei, Richard, Nicholas, Tessa, Nerilie, Anais, Jamie, Julien and Bo)

 

Alison Criscitiello and Bo Vinther.

 

Wx at Müller: Snow and snowdrift most of the day, sunny in the evening. Maximum sustained wind 25kn in late night/early morning and 20-23kn until lunch, then decreasing, between 180 deg true and 230 deg true all day, temperatures between -15 and -11 deg C.

Caption: Windy Victoria Day here at Müllers Ice Cap, with fairly low visibility in our camp.




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