Sunday, April 10, 2011

A great day of travel...

Today the team made great progress logging 10 nautical miles of northward gain. the temperature was around -25 degrees C with a breeze coming across their left cheeks. With the longitudinal positioning of the team North was almost directly into the sun for much of the day which was a beautiful sight because there was a halo around the sun caused by atmospheric conditions.

Good conditions allowed for great progress
The team experienced very good traveling conditions with few open water "leads" and only a handful of small pressure ridges. When we spoke with the team they were in their dining tent enjoying hot drinks and soup in advance of Dinner. Ragnar was also sharing some dried Icelandic fish that he brought from home. He has very good reason to celebrate. He learned today that he is a new grandfather! Make sure to listen to Sichen's audio report below and check back again tomorrow for more news from the team!