After spending a few great months with Kelly in Leeds, I caught a flight back to Boulder. I'll be here for a couple months, then hope to return to England for more quality adventures and urban living with Kelly and an academic collaboration at the University of Leeds.
The flight path back the United States crossed Southern Greenland, and offered exceptionally beautiful, cloud-free views of the fjords of the southeast Greenland coastline. An evenly textured layer of blowing snow could be clearly seen racing down the ice sheet; where the spindrift encountered rocky outcroppings, or nunatuks, near the coastline, long chaotic wakes trailed downwind. Surrounding the island, an expanse of pack ice showed fascinating structures. Floating platforms of sea ice had been worn circular, and where they had packed together and refrozen, the original circular forms could still be distinguished by subtle shading in the color of the ice surface. In places, newly forming ice was so dark it could not be distinguished from open water, but for the muted manner in which it reflected sunlight.
