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2011-05-19 02:02:19

Thanks for your support you can follow the rest on poletopolerun.com

#49

2011-05-18 13:49:07

thanks for your support keep in touch via poletopolerun.com

#48

2011-05-15 23:50:20

We had to pass through hell in order to reach our Nirvana. On Canada we stand, content. Flight out tomorrow. Eric

#47

2011-05-14 23:22:23

Mensaje de voz.

#46

2011-05-13 23:02:43

Stumbling in pea soup but cleared by lunch. Mountains grow and we think we have Ward Hunt Is. in our sights, 46km away. Ripper! 23km. Eric

#45

2011-05-12 22:16:30

Land obscured by coastal fog all day. Grinding over snowdrifts but sleds are lighter now. 21km today, 70 to go. Eric

#44

2011-05-12 00:37:13

Mountains coming into focus on the south horizon. Land still almost 100km away but surface has been good including mega frozen lead. 24km Eric

#43

2011-05-11 00:02:21

Amomgst heavy rubble today. Climbed a block to look ahead and avast...land ahoy! Distant but land indeed. Kewl! 20km. Eric

#42

2011-05-09 21:59:24

Entered a weathered icescape of knurled ridges and sinewy snowdrifts, wise like an old sage. I love my team, we travel as one. 22km. Eric

#41

2011-05-08 23:10:59

Mensaje de voz.

#40

2011-05-07 21:44:09

The land is like a fairytale, said Amundsen of Antarctica. So too is the Arctic. Sparkling crystals, ice gargoyles, fresh snow. Rafted two leads. 23km. Eric

#39

2011-05-06 23:12:27

Beautiful clouds today and a chance of spaghetti meatballs tonight. Despite rafting and detouring we slogged 25km. Eric

#38

2011-05-05 23:40:17

A mixed bag of cloud, sun, water, plains, ski, raft. Cajun beans, rice & beef tonight. Vodka depleted, send in the Russians! Eric

#37

2011-05-05 00:26:06

We thought the day would be 100% perfect - weather, surface, pace - but a complex lead stymied our 8th hour. 20km. Eric

#36

2011-05-04 01:37:05

A superlative day on many fronts. The temperature has been in the twenties which has helped freeze the leads, partially at least. We've had the good fortune to ski over some of the narrower ones today, gingerly, and rafted a wider one. There are still many large ponds about but they are solidifying, the slow freezing spawning immense frost flowers on their dark menisci. The cooler temperatures ...

#35

2011-05-02 23:21:49

Finally! A measure of luck or way with blue sky, no wind and -25C. Rafted two leads and crossed a mega canyon but racked up 18km. Eric

#34

2011-05-02 00:17:24

A diabolical day. I have never seen so much water. Somehow managed to get through but advanced a meagre 8km. All tired but happy. Eric

#33

2011-05-01 00:26:28

Warm minus teens are our nemesis. Leads are not freezing and constant snowfall cloaks them in a veneer of deceit. Tough days. 14km. Eric

#32

2011-04-29 23:49:56

We crossed many leads today, maybe 30. Many using kayak raft and swam two with the drysuit, one monster 30m wide. 16km. Eric

#31

2011-04-28 22:01:13

Yikes! another swim, this time Jose. He was filming us rafting across a lead and the edge collapsed. We fished him out, Spanish trout! Drying. 20km. Eric

#30

2011-04-27 23:01:07

The surface and pressure ridges are fat with snow from yesterday's storm. Reached half way, well & happy. 21km. Eric

#29

2011-04-27 08:04:20

Mostly dried out this morning and ready to pass half way. With drift still covered 15km yesterday. Avanti

#28

2011-04-26 22:54:22

For such gluttony there must be retribution, payback, recompense. The Twin Otter of Ken Borek Air arrived in the still cold blue around 11pm and delivered us 28-days of food and fuel, more batteries, ski bindings, Easter eggs, two kettles, a thermos flask, 8 cans of Guinness and two bottles of vodka. No resupplied expedition is complete without a delivery of vice. As starkly as it came the ...

#27

2011-04-25 18:58:37

A day of high adventure rafting across water, skiing over shearing cracks, battling northerly drift. 18km. Resupply tonight. Eric

#26

2011-04-24 18:43:12

Noodles at lunch brought oodles of sun but the chili brought an ill chill wind. Great team, good vibe. 20km. Eric

#25

2011-04-23 18:53:09

Four gorillas groping in the mist. Every stride revealed another drift, sastrugi or block but we stumbled 21km and into the 86th parallel. Schweet! Eric

#24

2011-04-23 04:05:18

Forgot to mention the Canada Airforce flyover the previous night. Thanks for the visit guys. You forgot to drop the beer! Our Pamplona bull was in fine form last night. e

#23

2011-04-22 19:12:13

Tenting with Jose tonight, who is doing a great job filming this gig. And a nice guy, despite his snoring! 19km. Eric

#22

2011-04-21 18:30:55

A bit of a cocktail today; lashings of flat pans, a dash of rubble, a swirl of giant crumbling ridge and a garnish of bear prints. A delicious 21km. Eric

#21

2011-04-20 19:34:30

We change tent partners every two days. Next to me in the tent is ourcomms wiz, Clark, who only yesterday sent a 4mb video to our base team. From what I know, which is not much really, this is unprecedented from these regions. So far we have had plenty of power for our faultless devices which include twoMacbook Air’s, a bank of external laptop batteries, 4 Iridium phones, iPods and iPhones, ...

#20

2011-04-19 17:07:07

Pat has found his rhythm and becomes more accustomed to the cold and ice by the day. Expecting a Canadian Airforce flyby tonight. Eric

#19

2011-04-18 19:12:01

A bitter headwind & -32 °C. Ouch! Sled Names. Clark-Frankenstein, Pat-Bubba, Jose-Nanukin, me-Mike, after a friend, both are doing it hard.

#18

2011-04-17 19:20:18

Mensaje de voz.

#17

2011-04-16 20:14:10

Fortune favoured the fabulous four when we found an expressway direct to Canada. But luck comes in small doses and we are now amongst pressure. BTW saw bear tracks yesterday. The full moon awaits with promise of ice chaos. Eric

#16

2011-04-16 03:58:12

Rubble rubble toil and trouble finally succumbed, back in the flatlands. Spent the evening outside repairing Clarks sled, stoved in after a giant leap from a boulder. -30°C again. Tintin woukd like it here. Eric

#15

2011-04-15 21:03:28

Rubble rubble toil and trouble petered out by midday. The bow of Clarks sled has stoved in leaping from a giant ice boulder. Just spent my evening outside in -30°C repairing it. Tintin would like it here. Eric

#14

2011-04-14 19:21:11

Kaboom! It's like a bomb went off and decimated the landscape. Grinding all around us overnight, nails screeching on a blackboard. Heaved through the chaos, dodgy camp. Eric

#13

2011-04-14 04:59:06

Pat on snowshoes now. Ice grinding overnight. Keep sled names coming. To Greg Becker, please contact www.poletopolerun.com to arrange. We cannot reply direct to messages from here. eric

#12

2011-04-13 18:56:05

The sleeping behemoth awoke today. A large area of first-year ice got hammered by pressure and walls grew, groaned and crumbled around us. I love this place. We need names for each of our sleds. Suggestions! Eric

#11

2011-04-12 19:35:30

We have been successfully sending a minute of video to our support team every evening. -32 °C today, no wind. Skied 23km on a good surface. Flying! Eric

#10

2011-04-11 19:00:21

Mensaje de voz.

#9

2011-04-10 19:57:10

Getting some southerly drift from strong winds. -28 °C today. 90kg sleds beginning to lighten. No bears yet Al! Eric

#8

2011-04-10 05:03:03

Mid 30s today but little wind. No water, everything frozen which made 4 good progress. Reindeer salami rocks!

#7

2011-04-08 19:45:22

Better surface today with little water. Colder, -30 °C, but light wind & clear skies. 17km, all in good shape. Eric

#6

2011-04-07 18:23:27

Windy with -27°C. Lots of rubble and leads. Pat is doing a remarkable job for a novice. 17km today. Dinner, ugg!

#5

2011-04-06 09:36:40

We are at the North Pole. Canada here we come! Eric

#4

2011-04-05 10:06:00

Today we fly north, finally. The sleds are packed and sit outside in the cold where the food is nicely frozen. Other sleds surround ours, teams that are also heading north to ski the last degree to the North Pole. Clark and three of our media team fly to Barneo at around 4pm today, Pat, Jose, Nick from Quail TV and I will fly around midnight. There we collect 50 litres of stove fuel and ...

#3

2011-04-02 19:37:06

It's April 2 and yes, we should have been on the ice by now, skiing southward. But, as is the nature of polar logistics, all good plans come unstuck if you glue them too hard. There has been a delay in establishing Barneo, the Russian drifting ice station and runway that are so instrumental in getting us to the North Pole. Barneo is one of the most astonishing logistical exercises on Earth and ...

#2

2011-03-26 10:14:22

Svalbard is a difficult place to ski. It's mountainous, with steep passes that you have no alternative but to climb if you want to reach the other side. The weather in March is variable from blizzards to clear skies with bitter cold. We had it all on our four day training trip. On the 22nd we skied from our cosy apartment and headed south up a long valley and over a pass into Fardalen valley ...

#1

2011-03-21 23:29:26

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