Day: 158

Expedition Comes to End

Temperature: 50F

Location: Pond Inlet, Nunavut

Latitude: 72deg 42’ 01’’ N

Longitude: 77deg 58’ 54” W

Distance Traveled: 0 Miles – Pond Inlet

The warm weather continues today. It is very warm, the streams are flowing full till, there is a lot of melt from the mountains above. The leads - open sections in the ice - are also widening. For instance, to get out to our camp right now I’m jumping a number of leads. When we got here four days ago the leads were an average of a foot and a half or two feet wide. And they rise from the bottom of the ice up, so there is a kind of lip on the edge. They are now even wider.

The ice, however, is extremely solid, there is probably four feet of ice, so there is no problem there. But the leads are opening. The decision was made today that we will end the expedition here at Pond Inlet. So I am working right now on charter flights, figuring out how we get all the dogs and the gear and the people back. We have several possibilities, and I will know more on Monday, which will be an extremely busy day. I will let everyone know how that pans out.

Until Monday morning there is not much happening. Myself, I am working mostly on gear, and people are kind of hanging out in general, enjoying the weather.