[singlepic id=486 w=280 float=right]Today was by far the coldest day since I have been here. Only about -25 F, but the wind was over 25 mph all morning resulting in -55 F wind chills and lower. Of course it came at the worst possible time. Today was the day that we moved the drill camp, so we spent almost all of it outside. Later in the morning it was blowing so much snow that we couldn’t see the station any more, and drill camp is only about ¼ mile away.

[singlepic id=477  w=280 float=right] Moving camp involved brining in the big dozers and towing the building to the new location. We can tow up to 5 at once. The first dozer got stuck in a patch of really soft snow. We had to call in another bigger dozer to pull out the small dozer and all 5 buildings….at the same time. It was a pretty impressive sight.

The day was mostly spent hooking and unhooking tow hitches and chains. You can probably see why the weather was so harsh on our team. Frequently my baklava would freeze to a part of my face and I would have to rip it off. In addition my goggles kept fogging up on both the inside and the outside. The fog turns to ice nearly instantly, so you can’t just wipe it off. You have to jump in the van to warm them up, or try and scrape the ice off. Pretty soon, I just gave up and spent most of the day looking through a hazy ice layer and trying not to run into things or crash snowmobiles.

Hoping that today is better weather…