Tomoko Arai, Recon team, 26th December 2012, South Graves icefield

Again, today the recon team were tent-bound, lying in our sleeping bags all day due to the strong katabatic wind storm that picked up in the night. It has been blowing whole day with winds from the south driving small snow and ice particles along up to about a meter in height (see photo), which make travelling outside very unpleasant. Since we are planning to move to an area close to the North Graves icefield tomorrow, it would have been the last day for us to search meteorites here in South Graves icefield and it has been frustrating not to be able to get out to work. We were able to go out for meteorite search only for part of three days among totally eight days of our stay here. We hope to get out of here soon, and want to find lots of meteorites in the next target site where we have nice weather hopefully.