air plane

today the weather was still the best.

at 1345 a TWO from Iceland landed. it brougth us somme much needed mail ( hardfiskur, opal, topas, hangikjøt og paskaegg hehe). we loaded 3 sledges on the plane and it went on to the research station of Zackenberg.

in the mean time Hansi and I went on a ski trip to Nuhavn bringing the dogs with us.
when we came home, Hans and Phelippe had come down from the mountain to get a shower and to write some e-mails.
on the way to Iceland it made and touch and go on the runway to drop of another package.

great day!

Scooter trip to Flemming Fjord

Today we went on another scooter expedition. this time we drove to flemming fjord via Antarctics Havn - Henrik Møllers Dal -Flexur Dal and Edderfugle Dal.

it was a 140 km trip. the weather was cloudy for the first time in almost 4 weeks. the driving conditions were quite good, some places the snow was to hard, most of the time it was great. we saw a lot of new things and had a great trip.

on coming back home I helped our neighbours to pick up some heavy stuff in Nyhavn.

afterwards I almost fell asleep in the armchair. obviously it's tyring to sit on a scooter for many hours...

I put out some more pictures

new neighbours...

two days ago -Hansi and I drove from Minebyen to Sorte Hjørne and home via Mestersvig. the weather was great and the snow conditions fantastic. the trip and the scenery was awsome...
yeasterday Hansi and on a long trip on all the nearby mountains. this was way too much for my problems with heights. instead I was showeling some snow and doing my tax calculations...

today we got an plane. it was an Twin Otter from station nord. it was on its way to Iceland.
Hans, Per and Phillippe the three men from the expedition "Norfra" are staying here for the next 2-3 months. it will be a lot of fun for us...

it hasn't been snowing since the 10th of March. which is incredible. high sun and calm winds all the time. spring is definately in the air.

stay happy

cheers

still great

the weather is still great and so are we!
yeasterday we went on our snow scooter to skeldalen and had a look on the huge valley and the 2 glaciers. spring has definately come. several palces the lakes were water filled and the river was running. it wasn't a problem to drive on the river banks. there was lots of space and snow.

today we went for a sledge trip with our dogs. it's great to be here...
on Friday we get visitors. it's hans lapstun adn 2 friends. they will be staying in one of the cottages 6 km away from us, for the next months.

another day at the office...

yeasterday Hansi and I went on a scooter trip again. this time we went through Jægerdal to Kalledal and home via Antarctic Havn and Kap Syenit.

the weather was great, sunny, clear and calm with temperatures around -25.

the first part of the trip had a lot of powder snow and even running water in the river bed. spring is moving in early...
then we met our first obstacle. a waterfall of 5 metres. it wasn't possible to get through it on the snow scooters. therefore we had to go around it. it meant going up a steep mountain. it went ok, but i needed to try 3 times! uææ steep.

after going through a narrow and amazing canyon our last obstacle was a 4 metres snow wall. we stood on top of it and had to get the scooters down! the only way was to dig our way down. we removed 1 metre of snow and made a ramp and a soft cushin at the bottom. it was very warm so it wasn't a problem staying warm!!! we got everything down withour any problems and continued out of the canyon, into a huge vally with excellent conditions. from there on the trip back home was easy. all together 100 km and a great day at the office.

today was our 11th day with nice weather and no snow. it's great not to worry about the roads and the runway covered in snow all the time.

Hansi went on a mountain, Hesteskoen and I went hunting. after 3 hours I came back home, without seeing or shooting anything...

sleep thight

scooter trip to kap simpson

once more, the weatehr was good in my kingdom. -27 and sunny. Hansi and I decided to go on our extreme trip to Kap Simpson. altogether the trip was 150 km. we brought a sledge, a tent, sleeping bags, burners and food. just in case something went wrong. there are no one to help us!
in the mean time sledge team 5 stayed on the station.
the trip was great, we saw a lot of new things and beautifull nature. there were quite some polar bear tracks at Simpson, but we didn't see any bear.
on our way we visited the ruin of the Bjørnebo cabin at Kap Simpson and the sirius depot at vælddal.
the snow was mosttly packed hard, so a bit anoying to drive on, now and then we had a soft layer which was quite nice. we started at 1045 and where back around 1600.

on arrival to mestersvig, we saw a plane and a crowd of people. it was not a scheduled plane. it was going onwards to Station Nord, but they had fog so they decided to stay here fore a few hours. after 10 min. a Twin Otter came along with some more people for Station Nord.
søren was the only one at home when the first plane arrived, so he had a chit chat and some coffee with them.
altogether a wonderful day in our backyard...

how lucky can I be???

"Bamsemums"

today Hansi got a tour with the HELO, they found one single male and one mother bear with 2 cubs. The small family was found just 22 km from Mestersvig. What a day on the job...

I spent most of the day on the radio, to comunicate and send weather forecast. there was one Twin otter on the way to Danmarkshavn and the HELO in our area.

Sledge team 5 went to the Petersens area on scooter to make a track for the sledge and to move some provision for their trip later on...

it was a beautifull, sunny day with temperatures around -30.