ICE2001's six-member team destined for the high (5,300 m) drill camp (Mike Demuth, Mike Waskiewicz, Eric Ruffa, Steve Bertollo, Jeff Bellis and Hċkan Samuelsson), plan to spend their last night at King Col (4,200 m) before climbing higher.

At King Col, ICE2001 examined the weather station that was installed in the summer of 2000. Sometime during the winter, the station failed because of the harsh conditions, notwithstanding a very solid installation by ICE2001 experts - this says something about the icing conditions and the wind speeds. The weather station is a vertical pipe, with a cross about 3.5 m above the snow when installed last August. Mounted on this structure are instruments that measure wind speed, wind direction, snow depth, temperature, atmospheric pressure, and short wave radiation. A small solar panel provides enough electricity to power a recorder buried in the snow at the base of the structure. The data on this recorder, for as long as it operated, will help ICE2001 understand the climate in this little-visited part of the continent.

Also today, two climbing parties, aiming at Mount Logan itself, one of six Canadians and the other of eight Americans, left the Quintino Sella base camp to begin the slow trek on skis up into the King Trench enroute to King Col and beyond.