Müller Ice Cap Daily Report Thursday May 22

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Daily Report for 22 May 2025

 

While weather forecasting has come a long way, we once again

had to realize that weather in remote locations can be tricky to

forecast. Today all available weather models looked promising,

calling for decreasing winds as the day progressed. Until lunch time

our weather here at Müller Ice Cap behaved as predicted, and we managed

to clear camp of the snowdrifts most in the way. After lunch, however, wind picked up again, this time from a direction almost 90 deg offset from the wind we had yesterday. Hence the snowdrifts we had not managed to clear, quickly started to create new snowdrifts almost perpendicular to the original ones, quite a nuisance to say the least. Anyhow, the forecast for tomorrow is good, so now we just hope, that the weather up here reads up on this good forecast and behaves accordingly! 

 

What we have done today:

- Continued drilling of shallow core for firn-gas sampling, current depth: 58m. 

- Continued firn-gas sampling, two more levels sampled.

- Snow pit and surface sampling.

- Cleared camp of snowdrifts.

- Started disassembly of freezer.

- Started reorganizing our food supplies.

- Groomed skiway and a few tracks through main area of camp.

 

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: Sunny morning, turning cloudier with sunny spells after lunch. Wind 10-15kn from 230 deg true until lunch, then turning to 280 deg. true and increasing to 15-20kn. Temperatures between -16C and -11C

Caption: The panels of our modular freezer had unfortunately frozen into place, making disassembly a challenge, but with equal amount of patience, heat guns, ethanol and brute force, we managed to get half of the panels liberated today! Bo, Iben and Nicholas are doing their best to get one more panel to give way.



 

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