What should have been a routine trip to take another snapshot of snow and ice conditions promised to turn into a rather frustrating couple of days in Barrow. Everything took me longer than expected, whiteout conditions made snow dunes invisible, and recent snow fall covered the ice with a blanked of fluffy snow only waiting to be blown away once the wind picked up.
Oddly enough, it all fell into place on the last day of this trip: the wind blew away much of the fluffy snow, the clouds were thinner and I could see the ground, and I had a very energetic group of ambassadors of Ben and Jerry’s Climate Change College helping me on the ice. Everything worked out very nicely after all. There is coverage of the last day of this trip in the online edition of the British tabloid newspaper, The Sun.