Since Tobbe has made good friends with the pilots here (read: nagged them every time he got a chance) the two of us got the unique opportunity to come along on one of their flights today, wohoo! Braam and Rod (the Titan pilots) were going to drop the geomorphologist Ian and the biologist Jen at Flarjuven, which is a mountain to the South of here, where they were going to do some field work for the day. We got to come along for the flight, with the strict rules that we were not to leave the helicopter under any circumstances.. which was a bit of a shame since we had the idea to test our home-built portable antenna out there, but oh well, we'll just have to go on a field trip ourselves and do that later!
In any case, it was absolutely stunning, to fly low over the mountains and see all the wind scoops around them, crevasses and even icy lakes in the wind scoops! Sometimes there are only small peaks poking up above the ice surface, and you can really imagine the big mountains underneath, that are just covered in a thick thick layer of ice and snow, filling up the space between them so only the peaks are visible. And the mountains are really light blue, even up close!
Tomorrow we're planning to go out on our antenna-field trip, so we'll post more photos and news from that tomorrow evening!
In any case, it was absolutely stunning, to fly low over the mountains and see all the wind scoops around them, crevasses and even icy lakes in the wind scoops! Sometimes there are only small peaks poking up above the ice surface, and you can really imagine the big mountains underneath, that are just covered in a thick thick layer of ice and snow, filling up the space between them so only the peaks are visible. And the mountains are really light blue, even up close!
Tomorrow we're planning to go out on our antenna-field trip, so we'll post more photos and news from that tomorrow evening!
Lorenzen piggen, a mountain with many interesting nick-names, due to it's spectacular shape..
A huge wind scoop, with a whole ice-covered lake down it! I so wished I had my ice skates with me! 
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