The flying conditions are nothing but perfect, so the plane is expected to leave from Troll at 19.00 this evening. Then I have one day in Cape Town to heat up. After that I'll have a small vacation in Stavanger, before returning to Trondheim on Friday, just in time for cake-Friday with the other geotechnics-students. …
Working in the snow storm
On Tuesday, we had a small snow storm coming up. The scheduled flight on Wednesday were therefore cancelled, and I had the runway to myself, woho! So I took a lot of measurements around some mysterious holes which had appeared in the middle of the stripe the day before. I was very satisfied with the …
Troll Airfield
This weekend, there were a lot of activity on the airport. There are only two airports in Dronning Maud Land who can recieve intercontinental flights, and that is Troll Airfield and the Russian one. These flights require more personell at the airport, for instance a fire engine, a doctor and properly preparation of the runway. …
Topp ti!
Today I was lucky to be invited to a new trip with Jim. Of coarse, he new that I was keen on going on the two remaining trips on the "Topp ti"-list, so it was a bit like "he was kind to take me there". Today Sveinung and Karin also joined. We started out with …
A small weekend
Now I've been here for one and a half week, and have one more left. Some days have been great, while others have been long. Sometimes there has been trouble with the equipment, and other times I have been missing everybody back home. Like climbing at "Bunkeren", eating avocado-lunch with the other students (on my …
Picture of the day
Just checking that the gopro is recording. Today was good day out on the ice.
This is no holiday
I wanted to make a post about the everyday life at Troll. But I realise that no days are similar down here. I guess this post will be more what I would do if everything goes according to the plan. The alarm goes of at 06.20 every morning, and breakfast is served until 7.00. In …
Another indoor-day
It is still stormy weather outside, so there is no point in going out to the airport. I enjoyed the lazy day yesterday, but one should not go to long in a place like this without anything to do. Therefore I volunteered at the kitchen, making bread and wheat rolls for the lunch. The guy …
Storm coming up!
Finally, some real weather! Today we woke up to a beautiful sun, but the forecast says that the wind will increase during the day and reach its maximum of 35 m/sec at midnight. So the main activity today is to secure the station by removing all loose items and strapping the containers firmly to the …
Pompel og Pilt
Since this is an isolated community, car signs are not needed. Instead, all the cars has their own names. This is Pomel and Pilt. I took this picture when I was driving back from work today. It's called "Snow scooter in the sunset" of course. It takes about 10 min to drive from the station …
