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Project Acronym: GYGY | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5011

ins.: 2009-01-23 01:00, 17 yrs ago
By: Scientists
Category: Elgygytgyn
Elgygytgyn

Elgygytgyn: 2009-01-23

Ice road construction has concluded the layout of both roads ...
Here are the 2 vital items for ice road construction, the portable hand-powered ice auger and the bamboo pole.

Ice road construction has concluded the layout of both roads to the drilling sites D1 and D2. Distance signs and marker poles of bamboo have been frozen in place every 250 meters. Work has progressed every day during daylight hours, despite the frigid temperatures which often drop below -30 C, not considering the windchill factor. Both D1 and D2 ice platforms have been marked out, also with bamboo poles, and are awaiting snow clearing prior to the commencement of flooding.