Marianne Mader, Systematic Team, Jan. 16, 2012 Otway Camp, Beardmore Region, Antarctica
We’re now at the Otway campsite, our final Antarctic home in the field and location of the ‘landing strip’ (i.e., flat snow surface) for the C-130 Hercules plane. It took us three attempts, but we finally managed to...
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Tomoko Arai, Recon Team, 16th January, 2013, Szabo Bluff
Hi! Ten days have passed since we were tent-bound on Jan 7th. The weather has never been good except afternoon in Jan 12th. Strong wind, low surface definition, and snow mounds around the tents, have made it hard for us to...
Hi, Ralph Harvey here, PI of ANSMET.
The field team has asked me to fill you in on news from this season that didn't show up in the blog because they weren't sure how to deal with; there's more to the "Groundhog Day at Larkman" story from a few...
Katie Joy, Recon Team, 14th January 2013, Szabo Bluff
Guess what – we have moved and are currently enjoying a nice glass of red wine back in McMurdo. We are sitting in comfy chairs with cushions, and have had showers and washed our hair. No only kidding. We are still...
Tomoko Arai, 12th January, 2013, Szabo Bluff
Hello, everyone! I hope everything is going well. Inconceivably, we have been tent-bound for six days! We originally planned to move to a different campsite prior to heading back to the Klein glacier, where we landed and stayed for several days in the...
Andrew Beck, January 13th, 2013, Larkman Nunatak, G-058
As my tentmate Jim put it, "the last few days have been like a scene out of the movie Groundhog Day". Yesterday, January 12th, we broke camp at Larkman Nunatak for the second time and tried to make our way to Mt....
Rob Coker, Larkman Nunatak, January 10, 2013 (G-058)
I warned them. I warned them not to go. I warned them not to go to the old camp. I had heard stories about the members of that expedition (Linda most especially) that gave me chills: they came back from the ice...
Katie Joy, Recon Team, 10th January 2013, Szabo Bluff
Well, regrettably there is not a lot of meteorite action to report from Szabo Bluff. For the last four days we have been tent bound waiting for the opportunity to change camp. We have two days where the wind blew and...
Priscilla King, Recon Team, 8th January 2013, Szabo Bluff
Well hello there darlings. I am my holiday from the Ross Sea (really the leopard seals are a nightmare this time of year) and upon my hike through the mountains I stumbled across the ANSMET recon team camp. Well you can...
Monday, Jan. 7 Tom Sharp, Systematic Search Team G-058
We are nearly done with our tasks and Larkman Nunatak and it is time to clean up before we depart for our next camp at Cecily-Raymond Nunatak. We have completed the systematic search of all the blue ice in the area...