Watched part of the Christmas Games and New Year’s fireworks in Barrow – this was a trip for fun rather than work. Looking at it from the shore, landfast ice looks like a field of rubble this year, so far no pressure ridges in sight that would be worth mentioning. Measured ice thickness close to the shore with Barrow resident Kaiti Ott and Dale Pomraning’s ice corer: about 0.68 m of fun.