The calm before the storm

We have a few days now to organise ourselves before a large influx of clients arrive. There is group going up to North Liverpool Land, a group across the fjord to a valley called Sodal and two groups going up to Sydcap, and then onwards; one going north to the Staunings Alps area and one going west to Ofjord between Milner Land and Ren Land. I'm not sure how we will progress onwards from Sydcap. A couple of Germans told us last week there was allot of powder snow in the fjord. Coupled with this, our first bad weather for weeks is forecast. We are due to have snow and high winds during the week of being at Sydcap.

http://www.yr.no/place/Greenland/Other/Constable_pynt/long.html

We are due to leave on Friday so it looks OK for that, but looks like we will get stuck at Sydcap for the rest of the week! I fly back a week on Thursday - great! It will actually be good to get some new snow, it's been quite warm over the last few days and there has been lots of melt which does not bode well for our route up north, which was already bare.

We have been busy preparing all the kit needed by groups and servicing our travel system and emergency kit so it is all in top condition for the journeys. Lots of Jerry cans had to be filled with skidoo fuel from our 200lt drums buried in the snow.

We did have time to go skiing up on a glacier in Kalkdal. No powder snow unfortunately, but a good run never the less.

A trip down to the local village 50kms away to take a client gave us a chance to do some more shopping in the one supermarket and take some pictures. Ittoqqortoormiit is a small village with lots of dogs!

 

 The one puppy took the best view point

There were quite a few houses with polar bear skins drying in the sun.