Easter - part V

After a night's rest in Longyearbyen recovering from the adventures of Easter part I-IV, Katja, Amanda and I headed out again towards Tellbreen. We knew some other friends had headed in that direction the day before, on skis. We went on snow mobiles.

Long story short: all nine of us spent the night in the lower part of an englacial conduit in Tellbreen, i.e. in an ice cave.

As I said, this was in the lower part of the conduit, meaning that we had ice above us and mainly debris and frozen ponds under us. Also, it was too low to stand upright.

And again, any questions, don't hesitate to submit a comment below.

Melting water form icicles freshly picked off the wall!

Meeee!

The next morning we ran into Doug Benn, professor at UNIS, and knower of all that is to be known about glaciers. He told us that this particular ice cave had not been very stable lately. Whoopsie daisy....

Easter - part IV

Heeeey! Remember Easter part I, II and III? No? Well, it's all about my easter 2012 adventures on Svalbard, and to be honest, they were quite interesting. Now I am going to my arse into gear (can you say that in English, or is that just a Norwegian expression?) and post pics from rest of the easter holiday during the next somthing days/weeks. I don't think I can be bothered to write too much about the general happenings in the pics, that's what stopped me getting the posts done the last time.

If there is anything in the photos that you are curious about, post a comment, and I will answer. Enjoy!

Easter 2012 - part IV:
The strangest sunset, and Eskerfossen.
 A little bit of background: Snowscootered from Svea and all the way to the east coast. Met complete whiteout and increasing winds at east coast, turned around, drove through tricky moraine, and headed back to Longyearbyen. Made a couple of stops on the way back:

We were met by the strangest sunset I have ever seen on our way back through Sassendalen. To begin with I thought something was on fire, because everything else had the usual bluish tint. One of the you-kind-of-had-to-be-there-experiences.

 Stopped at the Esker waterfall. Frozen at this time of year. Unfortunately it also had a big pile of drifted snow in front of it during our visit...

 

 Next time: Easter - part V: Sleeping in a Glacier

Stay tuned!

Instaspam

Hey ho! Follow me on instagram. Here's this fall's bunch of my instapics this fall. There's a lot of them. All taken with my little iPod, I have no smartphone. This will be the one and only time I post such an amount of instapics since I've finally put up a little widget on the sidebar instead for future pics. I have to say I'm rather surprised how much better your ipod/iphone pics can get with just some clever little apps. For the record I use Pro HDR, Photogene2, and Diptic.

First: The great outdoors!

Next: Food and drink

Mmm, liquorice vodka. Yu-mmy!

 

Lastly: misc.

 

That last pic is the logo of a local physiotherapist's office. Dirty, dirty physiotherapist... :p

Argh, I'd love it if the pics were spaced out more through the post, but it took me look enough just to get them the way they are now. Exterminate Blogger's picture system!