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Day 6: Our first storm (or, oh yea, that
Drilling progress slowed substantially with an improvement in the weather, then stopped completely as we focused on staying alive during a storm. The past few days had been overcast, with no direct sun. With the sun out in full force yesterday, snow began melting on the core barrel and then re-freezing again once it was lowered back in the hole where it was colder. This is problematic because when the core barrel gets stuck in the outer section, the core can be damaged when trying to extract it. So we decided to stop work in the early afternoon and start again at 5AM before the sun came up. At dinner time, the wind had picked up a bit, and continued to grow stronger through the evening. By 3AM, it had intensified quite a bit, and I began to be concerned about the integrity of our tents. At 4AM, I was outside trying to secure boxes that had tumbled over in the 40 knot gusts I was measuring on my handheld anemometer. Once I gathered up things that we
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, Jun 11th, 2008:
permalink report this comment as inappropriateSad to read about the last moments of the well-known black outhouse tent. Definitely sounds like a substantial storm as the ones in 1993 and 2003 and probably worse up there in the upper cirque.