Today was another full day out here at Lake E. On the drill rig we recovered more sediment cores today than many of the previous days. As I mentioned yesterday on one of the Ask the team questions, I've been occupied with many different activities. Yesterday I built a wooden cabinet for one of the water pumps. This simple task was considerably more difficult here at the lake. As with many construction projects, we had to make several trips to the hardware store... except at Lake E where can you go? Fortunately, the crew has anticipated such needs and we brought several containers loaded with hardware. These containers had what we needed and we successfully completed the project.
The Lake E Hardware store...Hopefully someone planned for everything that we need.
Nuts and bolts, nylon straps, engine oil, pipe... all available if needed.
Today, we needed fresh water to drink while out on the lake so we bored a hole in the ice and helped ourselves to crystal clear cold water.
Julia fills the drinking water barrel from a fresh hole drilled in the ice.
In the afternoon, I returned to camp with the lunch bus and met Julie for a hike up on the crater mountains. It was great fun to hike with another geology junkie...stopping to look at rocks and other unique tundra features. Here are a few images from our hike.
Tundra rock split by ice wedging.
After about 15 or 20 minutes of looking, these are some of the pieces of impact glass that I found.
Tim Martin and Julie Brigham-Grette on the mountains at the edge of El'gygytgyn crater.
I am continually in awe of the beauty of this place...and I want to share a few more images.
Sustrugi snow sculpture on the hills behind camp.
I finally got to see some ice without snow...beautiful cracks extending down through two meters of ice.
T-Mart ... staying warm at lake E