Arctic fog

The Arctic fog came in yesterday morning, so we stuck around Ny Alesund and tried to wait it out. Unfortunately the fog never lifted, but we decided to head down to the glaciers anyways. Phaedra needed to pick up her water pressure gauge and deploy another one in the same spot, and Theo also needed to pick up his lonely sediment trap. Unfortunately, when we took the trap out of the water, we discovered that the cord had become tangled and therefore the traps were tilted sideways and not collecting sediment as desired. While we re-deployed the trap, the twine snapped on the winch and we lost the trap, yet again. 

Today we successfully deployed three traps. When we were done, a heavy coat of fog rolled down the glacier and surrounded us. We had to use the shoreline (and the GPS) to navigate back to Ny Alesund, and nearly ran aground several times attempting to keep the shore in sight. 

pirate ship in the fog

the fog rolling in over the glacier 

driving home in the fog