Ian Prickett provides a glimpse of working life as the team prepare to close the Ice Train down for the night. The wind plays havoc with the sound at times but hey, it’s windy!
Thank you for satellite info. For the uninitiated what do acronyms COG and SOG stand for? Former would appear to be geographical heading and latter average speed? Course Over Ground and Speed Over Ground perhaps? Yellow line is intended track and blue dots progress to date? How many dots on skidoo? Yellow line stops beyond mountain range. What does that signify? Can you let fans have more info? How many hours of daylight, for instance? How are you substituting for missing advance party for crevasse detection? Looks like about 100 miles so far. At this rate less than 3 months to destination! Bravo
Posted by Rosie on
Hello March, Thank you for your interest. When Hugh and the Ice Team get the chance, maybe they will be able to answer your questions more specifically!
The yellow line on the GPS Live Map denotes the distance travelled while the IceTeam were making Fuel Depot drops before the Journey proper started; they reached the edge of the Plateau. The blue markers show the Ice Team’s current route on The Coldest Journey. Hours of daylight – you will find a chart here: https://www.thecoldestjourney.org/blog/from-the-ice/hours-of-daylight/
Take a look back through the Blog, the Team of 5 have managed to post a significant amount of information from the Ice, and under the other headers on the site, you will find more detailed information about the radar and crevasse detection etc. Hope this helps! Best wishers, Rosie at Operations HQ.
Posted by Jack.f. Otterton School on
It was very cold in Devon today, with wind chill! But, sounds windier and colder with you. Is it hard to sleep in a caboose with all that noise? How many hours of daylight are you getting now?
GOOD GOOD LUCK!!!
Posted by Flossie Reed on
It was abolutley freezing, well to us it felt like it to me but up in Antarctica it must be more than triple the size of coldness of degrees.
Nice work fellas. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to hearing all about it in a few months time…..
Posted by Flossie Reed on
I’m a pupil of otterton school.
Why have you changed the back ground?
Posted by Rosie on
Hello Flossie, Well spotted! Hugh and Tris with our sponsors have been working really hard to make the website easier for everyone to use. Best wishes, Rosie at Operations HQ.
Posted by annac on
Thanks for taking the trouble to show us your ordinary routine. It makes it all seem very real. Never mind the sound of the wind. That just shows the reality. We must always remember sitting here in comfort in front of our screens that this is not a movie. It’s the real thing!
Good luck.
Posted by Erin Blackmore on
Today was freezing cold down at Otterton. But it must have been as Flossie said triple the degrees colder! I live in Exmouth and recently last year moved schools to Otterton. Otterton in winter is usually a couple of degrees colder as when you get into East budleigh there is a big dip. Why does the new background make it easier? GOOD LUCK ICE TEAM !!!!!!
I,m an engineer in Cornwall and I’ll never complain about cold hands when working outside again.Wishing all the team good luck and massive respect. Cheers Rob C
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