Flight back
The weather is ok. There is good visibility. Looks like we are flying back today. The Activ guests arrive in the morning - they are flying back with us.
October
I leave some equipment for Marcus in October. The goal then will be to analyze the data and trace collected by the system, to fix problems and complete the system installation and secure it for the winter. There might also be time for experiments (wifi, use of IP serial nodes with other data loggers). The todo list is already significant. We have accomplished a lot already, but there is still work to do.
Flying back
We fly from Zackenberg at 4pm. There are some clouds so not much of the coast to see from the twin otter. Most of us take a nap. At Constable point, we get our flight schedule to Copenhagen. We have a direct flight from Constable point to Keflavik at 9pm. From there we have a red eye that leaves Keflavik at 1am (local time) and arrives in Copenhagen on Friday at 7am.
There is GSM coverage at Constable point (since the week-end) so we can send sms home to tell the news. We meet at Constable point some of the people we met on our way up. In particular a team from Colorado/Oslo tells the story of how they spent 96 hours in a snow storm, inside one tent which was threaning to collapse under the very high wind, snow and ice. They had to wait 4 days in these conditions before a helicopter could rescue them.
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