Warm weather means wet feet for glaciologists
It's been an eventful few weeks over in Finse; as much planning as you do for field work you can never be quite sure what to expect and the data you get out of it will almost certainly be somewhat different to what you set out to collect. This was my experience on our most recent field campaign to the icecap I study, Hardangerjøkulen. As much as I enjoyed having such a warm, sunny Easter weekend, this combined with a generally mild winter meant very slushy/absent snow conditions and rapidly thawing lakes, not ideal for snowmobile use! As well as access issues, we were faced with a fuel shortage and very temperamental radar equipment. Despite all this I've now got plenty of data to play with and am keeping my fingers crossed that some of it contains some useful information. Midtdalsbreen with some new crevasses First thing on 23rd April we were off to a good start, Benny and I hired a car and set out for Hønefoss, just beyond Olso, where we would be spending the nigh...