Day 20: DYE2 and Camp Raven
-23°C | Calm wind | Sunny and blue sky! | |||
66.56387°N -46.53463°W | 2081 m | Distance today: 22km | Total distance: 390km of approx. 600km |
DYE2, a distant early warning radar station operated by the US during the cold war. Built in 1960, closed 1988. |
Today we reached the former radar station on the ice cap.. In the darkness we met two Americans, who kindly lent us torches so that we were able to examine the enormous building. We took notice of offices, billiard table, pub, kitchen and kitchenware, gas stove with steak and eggs in the cool and so on, all left in a hurry in 1988. Near by Camp Raven is situated, a trainingplace for starting and landing the Hercules airplane. The camp is run by a nice and hosbitable American couple. They invited us to get in and have a cup of coffee, and they served cakes in the cosy and very nice looking tent. We could also use the bath room. Thank you very much! Or else we glimpsed the "mystical" expedition today, according to the DYE2 guestbook they are from the Faraoe Islands and Scotland.
In spite of a four hours break, thanks to good skiing conditions we covered another 22 km. It´s a remaining distance of 170 km to tahe West Coast. We´re hoping to get there by Saturday.
(Added: Some parts of the message was not recieved correctly, we did not glimpse the coast of Scotland, but we saw the other expedtition, whom are from Scotland and the Faraoe islands)
Postet: 26.05.2007
Comments: 1
Comments
Comment from
bloguser
Posted
29.05.2007 ,
01:06
You may find a summary of the story of DYE2 (in English) on this internettadress:
Write a comment