Lake E Daily News, 24 April, 2009
Drilling of the impact sequences continued today despite a long night and half the day with very high winds over 50 mph, blowing snow and low ground visibility. The morning shift was delivered to the platform by bus and escorted by one of the bulldozers (took 1.5 hrs). The night shift returned by vezdahot to camp (only 30 mins). The dozer did a great job removing snow from the north side of the platform and Volker Neth's snow fences are working well.
The weather forecast over the next few days is for more variable winds with gusts to 45 mph (20 m/sec), however the winds slackened considerably late today and it’s probably just a lull. Temperatures should be lows of -22 to -27 C and highs -9 to -14 deg C.
We are now down to -446 m below lake floor and starting to get into more solid monomitic brecciated volcanic target rock and less of the broken breccias. We will get some pictures of the rocks up on the ICDP web site soon. Drilling continued all day without any problems with the overheating of the hydraulics.
Besides a successful day of drilling, the platform crew watched a herd of ~40 caribou only a kilometer east of the rig.
cheers from here....Julie BG
