Longyearbarn part 2.

Very stormy indeed today. we were supposed to be going on a 8 hour ski up to some ice caves but its too cold and windy. in these conditions en route to np we would hole up in our tents for the storm, its 24 hour day light so we can go ski day or night, we practiced putting the tents up in the wind which was quite hilarious if it wasn't quite so serious!! they are really impressive large and quite easy to put up. any way we managed well. met the russian guide mikael yesterday quite a dude, he has a siberian boxer with him who he is guiding whose first words were on meeting bonita imagine heavy russian accent, "girl, girl too dangerous to take girl to north pole" he was still not convinced when we told him she had summitted everest! he looks very like a siberian boxer and i suspect may behave like one too.
its still a waiting game we may go on wednesday but really don't know. the photo is off longyearbarn from above the town.