Finally we turned south. Now when the weather is good, it's sunny all day long from 11:00am to 6:00pm. In windless weather it is more fun and faster to move. Today we made a record of 12.5km (by straight distance). Looking at the snow we can see that the wind is favorable. If it gets stronger, we can use parasail and everything will be nice and we will progress much faster than ever.

We saw a lot of tracks: footprints of polar bears. It is a bit terrifying. I had a mixed feeling: on the one hand I want to see him (polar bear), but on the other hand I don't want to meet him. From then on it became obligatory for us to set up a perimeter around the tent using sledges, skis, ropes, and sticks. Håvard is keeping a gun in the tent.

Path of the polar bear

Our camp and the perimeter around the tent

We crossed a cape named "Hare's Conner". In the evening I visited the nearest hill and really found hare's tracks around the area where there were many lichen and old grass which I suppose hares were feeding on. There were also a lot of nice looking ice and snow.

Hare's tracks

Grass and lichen