In early 2013, our plan was to use an existing parking lot at the Fröå mine museum as drill site and begin drilling in 2013. However, we discovered that we wouldn't get access to the drill site before late in the summer. Thus, in March this year, Leif Bjelm and Jan-Erik Rosberg (technical project management), Stellan Larson (driller) and Henning Lorenz (coordinator; on-site science) went to Åre and met representatives from the Fröå mine museum and the local authorities. It was nice to discover that all parties are positive to scientific drilling, and an alternative drill site was found only a few hundred meters to the south of the first site. The new site needs to be inspected from a geotechnical point of view and it will be necessary to construct a solid substrate for the rig. Also, the permission process with authorities and road owners is more complicated as when drilling on an existing parking lot. Jan-Erik and Leif take care of these issues. But already now a lot of science connected to the COSC project is going on: EM measurements along the seismic profiles, new gravity spot measurements, planning of a VSP survey, geological fieldwork around the drill site, on Åreskutan, and the Lower Seve Nappe in general.