Spitzberg 2007.

Program GNGL:

Weather in Spitzberg

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	Descent of a small slope at 45° with the pulkas.
	Descent sitting on the pulkas.
	Small worries with the pulkas.
	Descent with pulkas.

Photographs, and the history of the trip:

Photograph Arrival at Longyearbyen , it is 2h morning. A bus drive us from the airport to the hotel. It still have 20°C in Oslo, and the local coldness is about -5°/-10°.	Photograph Breakfast in the hotel.	Photograph GNGL rented a hangar for arranged the material. After the lunch, we prepare our pulkas and our stuff.	Photograph Rennes of Spitzberg.
Photograph First small course with the pulkas: we makes 500m to join the caterpillar. I do not know it yet, but the temperature is softer at Longyearbyen than more on East...	Photograph A caterpillar will take us along to the middle of the valley "Reindalen".	Photograph End of the voyage in caterpillar. Recovery of the pulkas... And we discover that the weather is definitely colder in the center of the island than at Longyearbyen.	Photograph We installs the camp at the place where the caterpillar posed to us. Then a thermometre is left: -15° to -20° towards 19h! We are low in altitude, maximum 50m.
Photograph The evening after our arrival, we are joined by a team of TF1, of which Francine Buchi. She has a site/blog "column of the earth".	Photograph Their goal is to make a report, kind of "strange vacancy". We are in the Reindalen valley, close to a place called Sorhytta.	Photograph Departure with the pulkas Tuesday morning 17/4.	Photograph Our guide, at the head, is Pierre Neyret. When it is not guide for agencies, it organizes expedition. All is described on its site  Karakoram ski-forwarding . I will try Pakistan in 2009 well...
Photograph Pauses after one hour and half of ski.	Photograph This Tuesday, we go up the Reindalen valley.	Photograph	Photograph Activity traditional of the evening: to dissolve snow to have water for the following day.
Photograph Installation of the camp the evening. We are at about 100m altitude. 21km with ski was made.	Photograph Departure Wednesday morning 18/4. We owe bifurcate on the right to pass in the Lundstromdalen valley.	Photograph Before the turn, we are a little bit high, we must go down again in middle medium of the valley by borrowing a narrow passage in pulkas.	Photograph Descent of the pulkas by hand in a stiff passage.
Photograph This Wednesday, we will go through close to 18km without to really change altitude.	Photograph	Photograph The valleys are often rectilinear. But the snowfields at loss of sight are very pretty!	Photograph
Photograph	Photograph We almost arrived here at the end of the course for this Wednesday: we will put the camp against the crest of snow, in the turn on the left site of the photograph.	Photograph Sunset Wednesday evening. We are not very high, 50m of altitude.	Photograph Thursday morning 19/4 we cross the Kjellstromdalen valley.
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Photograph Thursday afternoon we launches out for a rise above the Edvardbreen glacier. It takes us from 50m of altitude to 250m.	Photograph	Photograph We are on top of the Edvardbreen glacier, at the junction with the Nordsysselbreen glacier.	Photograph Then installation of the camp this Thursday evening.
Photograph I walk around the camp towards 21h. The colors at this sunset are very beautiful!	Photograph	Photograph	Photograph
Photograph Sunset Thursday 19/4... without filter!	Photograph Lunch Friday 20/4.	Photograph Then we go down again towards the ice-field of the East coast, while going along the glacier Nordsysselbreen and Inglefieldbreen. The glacier stops net, which gives pretty photograph.	Photograph
Photograph Remain a few meters to go down, and we are on the ice-filed or the coast.	Photograph Discovered of trace of polar bear.	Photograph	Photograph Digging of the tent mass, with bench and table.
Photograph Photograph around the camp of Friday evening 20/4.	Photograph	Photograph I tried to make an igloo. Finally I simplified the technique of assembly by making the roof with flagstones of snow hard.	Photograph Departure Saturday morning 21/4. We cross the ice-field of the Inglefieldbukta to join the vagrant.
Photograph	Photograph And we are close to the boat the Vagrant ...	Photograph ... and we discuss 10 minutes with Eric Brossier .	Photograph
Photograph On the way there was a seal at this place there. But it plunged when it saw us arrived.	Photograph Saturday evening 21/4, we makes a shorter way, and we pose the camp towards Kapp Dufferin. 10~15km in the course of the day. Weather is cover the evening, I would not make a lot photograph.	Photograph Sunday will be also a small day, 10km maximum. The weather is released in the current from the day.	Photograph We cross bay of Agardhbukta.
Photograph We walk on the ice-field in the middle of the sea at more than 6km from coasts...	Photograph ... it is better that it holds good!	Photograph Iceberg are from time to time took in the ices of the ice-field!	Photograph
Photograph Sunset this Sunday 22/4. We pose the camp with Revnosa.	Photograph Monday 23, the day is quiet good, 10~15km not more.	Photograph The good weather returned, and we walk again on the ice-field at 100m from coasts. It is flatter, that goes better in general.	Photograph At certain place the icebergs multiply. Add to the movement of the ices during the storms, and it can given hilly way.
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Photograph Monday evening 23/4, we put the camp not very far from the Dunérbukta bay.	Photograph Tuesday 24 we walk again in the medium of the sea by crossing the ice-field to join Kapp Johannesen.	Photograph Passage on the ice-field...	Photograph
Photograph Passage on the ice-field...	Photograph	Photograph Passage on the ice-field...	Photograph
Photograph Tuesday evening 24/4 we poses the camp in bottom of the Usherbrenn glacier.	Photograph Wednesday 25/4, we have a free day.	Photograph We will visit a fixed camp of Norwegian Polar Institute which is located at 500m from us. They say that they have seen bears Monday evening 23/4.	Photograph Close to the tent, a hut is completely buried in snow. In fact it must be posed on the ground...
Photograph Inside there are beds and a mini-kitchen.	Photograph Neighbourhood of the hut.	Photograph At midday, we turns over to eat in the hut.	Photograph Then the afternoon, we tries to climb on Kroghfjellet, a small plateat at 50m above the ice-field. We see a piece of the Mohnbukta bay here.
Photograph A lenticular cloud appears ready sun in the afternoon, I benefit from it to make a photograph!	Photograph Lenticular altocumulus.	Photograph	Photograph We improvise mini-festivals for the birthday of the guide this Wednesday evening 25/4.
Photograph Thursday 26/4, we rises in altitude, and we leaves the ice-field.	Photograph We go up on the Usherbreen glacier.	Photograph	Photograph Pauses...
Photograph The top of the glacier is flat, and surface hard. I realizes that we walks better and more quickly without ski!	Photograph Strange cloud. We would say a wall of foehn in miniature!	Photograph Advanced in column...	Photograph We put the camp Thursday evening 26/4 close to the summit Klauva, at 670m altitude.
Photograph The sight since Klauva is very beautiful. We overhangs the Sassendalen valley which is beautiful sight from here!	Photograph	Photograph	Photograph Sunset which will not lie down besides, because it remains henceforth always above the horizon.
Photograph Departure Friday 27 for the descent.	Photograph New method of descent with the pulkas developed by Guy-John.	Photograph Us others we makes simpler: the descent sitting on the pulkas is simpler!	Photograph
Photograph The Sassendalen valley was very empreint by Skido. The traces draws almost a motorway.	Photograph Once arrived in bottom, a long straight line awaits us.	Photograph In the marshes cold of bottom, I discover something of original: crystals of frost.	Photograph Sassendalen valley.
Photograph Sassendalen valley.	Photograph Marsh cold.	Photograph We are in a valley marshy. Water resort surfaces some, extends, freezing, and forms a lake of ice.	Photograph Moisture released by water before it become freezing produce crystal of white frost (or flake of white frost) like here.
Photograph Marsh cold.	Photograph Marsh cold.	Photograph Marsh cold of Sassendalen	Photograph Crystal of white frost on a marsh cold.
Photograph Marsh cold.	Photograph Ice rough in the medium of the marsh. Original! In fact that must be generate by the liquid water that go back up at certain place of the marsh.	Photograph Sometimes we meets bulges on this marsh cold. It is perhaps related to the liquid water that go back up on the surface.	Photograph
Photograph	Photograph Lunch Saturday morning  28/4.	Photograph A race of traineau passes in the middle of Sassendalen. Snows bike (skido) also passed...	Photograph Then it east finishes, and it is the return in caterpillar towards Longyearbyen. But it is also the return towards softness and the hot shower which start to miss!
Photograph First not-freeze-dried meal!	Photograph We arranges the material in the same hangar than beginning.	Photograph Harbour of Longyearbyen . It is apparently often disengaged from the ices, which allows boats to arrived.	Photograph Harbour of Longyearbyen.
Photograph A restoring bar.	Photograph A residential zone of Longyearbyen.	Photograph The industrial park of Longyearbyen.	Photograph In the East of Longyearbyen, it is the starting point of the snowbike.
Photograph The Polar University of Longyearbyen.	Photograph Longyearbyen seen heights...	Photograph idems...	Photograph idems...
Photograph The church of Longyearbyen.	Photograph A handle of housing and hotel are placed at the bottom of a valley at 1km of Longyearbyen.	Photograph Meal in a kitchen of the hotel.

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