Well it has been a number of days since I have posted.  We have only had one day of flying weather on May 10th.  We got two HEM flights done in the afternoon while myself and 3 others went out on the ice with skidoos to do ground based measurements.  It was an exhausting day of navigating through rubble, getting stuck, then moving 50ft and getting stuck again. We started at 2pm and finished at 12:30am.  Yes, it is light here all the time, and no the light does not dim at all, it is as bright at noon as it is at midnight.  It is great for working because you don't get tired as easily and you don't have to worry about getting caught in the dark.

On May 9th we went to the ice caves near the base.  However, they don't really exist anymore because they have melted away.  Nonetheless the valley they are located in is extremely beautiful.  Though i'm not a geologist it was easy to recognize rocks with large ripple marks on the surface which indicates that it was in a stream for a long time.  There was also alot of snow in the valley, rabbits and tarmigan (birds).  It was a great little evening skidoo trip/hike and was great for morale as we spent the entire day inside due to miserable conditions on the ice.

Today we went out on the skidoo this afternoon.  It was a beautiful sunny day, but only for about 10 km around Alert, so no flying.  However we had a good day. We are almost done here as we fly out on Friday.  Tomorrow we will process our last ice core and start packing up equipment.  I don't expect to blog again from Alert, but maybe from Resolute.  I want to go back through the trip with new blog posts showing pictures, GPS tracks, maybe even some preliminary results, so keep tuned.