The last two days have been clear and calm, but the barometer has been falling steadily. The long-expected winds have arrived this morning--visibility is low once again and drifts are forming in front of our doors. One of our two Vestehot ("runabout") tracked personnel carriers broke down, which has put heavier demands for usage on the other one. We still wait for the arrival of the long-delayed overland convoys from Pevek, bringing equipment and supplies for drilling. When they arrive, we will begin assembling the drilling platform and staging the materials. In the meantime, the ice engineering team and others from camp continue to spend long hours flooding and thickening the ice at primary drill site D1. The thickened pad has become glassy smooth -- we wish for ice skates! 50cm of ice has been added to the 100cm that existed when flooding began, and we expect that five additional days of flooding will bring the thickness to the desired 200cm. We have also visited the prominent ice ridge crossing the lake parallel to our ice road.