Our last day in Greenland!

Today was our last full day in Greenland so we took the day to pack up our gear for the Air National Guard flight tomorrow am. This afternoon we played tourist and drove up towards Lake Ferguson to get a birds eye view of Kangerlussuaq.

You can see the airport in the top of this photo. We are staying at KISS- the third long building from the right of the photo. Meltwater from the upvalley ice flows under the bridge (center bottom of photo). If you look closely you'll see a C-130 (plane) at the airport.


Same view, but including the meltwater river that flows past Kangerlussuaq to the ocean. Are you wondering why Kangerlussuaq is so flat? It was built on a delta (geology is everywhere!).


Things that make a glacial geologist happy: glacial erosional features! We found these on some beautiful exposed glacially polished bedrock this afternoon.


We celebrated our last night in Kangerlussuaq with pizza- this one is muskox and red pepper- not a flavor you can find in the US!


Our sole group photo (in front of the map of Greenland of course!). From left to right: Lenore Grenoble, Simone Whitecloud, Ross Virginia, Laura Levy, Meredith Kelly, Xiahong Feng. (And yes, that is a pool table in front of us- KISS has a great facility here!)
We leave Greenland for New York early tomorrow am and then drive back to New Hampshire in the afternoon. I'm sure we'll take lots of pics on the way home and post them soon.