Jack’s weather report:
It is 12:05 a.m. and the sun is shining bright out over the Arctic Ocean but relatively low in the sky.
Temp: 32 °F (0 °C)
Winds are out of the east at 14 kt (16 mph)
This evening I was invited to go out and see a pingo. The name intrigued me as did its meaning. A pingo is a mound of earth covered ice that forms as water is squeezed out of the tundra. Pingos can be very large. One source I read said as high as 70 meters and 2 kilometers in diameter. The ones we saw were much smaller in comparison. They were located in what was once a lake bed.
We are standing on the pingo.
A closer look at the crack in the earth caused by the pingo.
On the walk out to the pingo, Jason spotted a lemming and we stopped for a look.
Jason holding the lemming. It was catch and release.
The shore ice is gone!...more soon…still waiting for the polar bear swim.
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