Müller Ice Cap Daily Report Thursday May 29

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Daily Report for 29 May 2025

Today we finally got lighter winds, permitting us to continue packing up camp, as well as digging our cargo out of snowdrifts. During the afternoon, weather even permitted us to receive 2 Twin Otter flights, albeit only barely, as the Twin Otter pilots Troy and Liam had to land their second flight to camp several kilometers from Camp to find permissible weather, and then taxi on the surface of the ice cap to our camp – just amazing! Now we just hope for clear weather tomorrow, so we can continue with flights both by the Twin Otter and Basler now stationed in Eureka to help us demobilize our camp completely.

 

What we have done today:

- Continued packing up camp.

- Groomed the skiway twice to clear drifts.

- Dug our cargo line out from snow drifts.

- Loaded 2 Twin Otter flights.

- Camp members in Eureka helped off load the Twin Otter flights before leaving for Yellowknife.

 

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

We are now none in Eureka.

 

 

Bo Vinther.

 

Wx at Müller: Ground fog all morning, lifting to low clouds around lunch with a few sunny spells in the afternoon. Winds increasing from 3kn in the morning to 17kn in the evening, turning from 200 to 240 deg true. Temperatures between -9C and -6C.

Caption: The Twin Otter taxiing on the ice cap surface towards camp – a most welcome and fantastic sight to behold! 




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