Not in the ice anymore! (Patreon)

Those of you who've followed our tracker might've noticed that we have moved away from our supposed overwintering location! Why?!

We had a warm weather event with strong and very warm winds that lasted for around 48 hours. (video above). During this time the ice that we were in (and that we had been walking on the past couple days) broke up. Exciting moments ensued as we were now surrounded by several football fields worth of broken up ice in high winds. After the wind turned the ice drifted out to sea and we were in open water.

In my previous post I explained that this location we ended up in was actually NOT the location that we had originally planned. After the wind event I looked at some more historical satellite imagery and noticed that the ice in the location that we ended up in did not seem stable throughout the winters. There is a lot of current flowing through and we decided we don't want to stay there because unstable ice causes issues for us. We need a location with a stable ice cover.

So long story short, we have an alternative location in mind. We have now come back to the town of Sisimiut to stock up with a bit more supplies, most importantly we need more (longer) shore lines. The next spot we have in mind is more protected and will let us run shore lines in each direction.

Anyways, just wanted to let you know what's going on, and this is also the reason why the next video episode is not yet ready for you! I'm working on getting the ad-free version to you as soon as possible :)

Live tracker is at: https://share.garmin.com/mapshare/alluringarctic/
(password: patronsonly)

Cheers,
Juho (& Sohvi & Nova)