We are just an hour and a half shy of 2017, which is way ahead of most of you, so Happy New Year from the field! We had a fun and productive day of foot searching on the blue ice near camp, which you vets will know is pretty...
Yearly Archives: 2016
Having just arrived in the field yesterday and tentatively wandering out onto the vast, Antarctic plateau, I felt the familiar mix of being right at home among the hard, glistening firn, the translucent blue ice, and the broad, flat vistas, and also of feeling distinctly that I am a...
After at least two weeks of waiting and biding our time, it all happened in a great rush and flurry, with things strewn all over building 155, but we made our shuttle, made our twin otter flight, and arrived at Elephant Moraine this afternoon! It is utterly beautiful, definitely...
Finally the weather at EET and McM is cooperating. There were two Twin Otter flights today. The first one delivered cargo, the seconds one transported Jani, Minako, Brian and John. They are already landed at EET and started setting the camp. We need four more flight to bring the...
Well, we're hunkered down, waiting out the snows of McMurdo, hoping the promised good weather of the latter part of the week will find its way to us. While we're waiting, we've found all kinds of activities in town. We've raided the skua bins to find free treasures, gone...
Yesterday it was foggy at EET. Today it is at McM. No Twin Otter flights in either case. - Alex, still from McM.
Sometimes a place is unique because of where it is and what it contains, like the vast continent of Antarctica and our little, lone field site. Other times a place is made special because of who is there and the time you spend. We feel fortunate to share Christmas...
Today was exciting day for me. I worked hard all day preparing for christmas eve (Dec. 23) service at "Chapel of the Snows". Since we are not able to fly out to our field, I decided spending my free time playing piano. When I was playing piano at chapel...
We continue to wait for the weather to break over the Royal Society Range, which is between us and Elephant Moraine, so that we can get into the field. As you can see, the place is still pretty socked in, and the low pressure continues to linger. I imagine...
It is likely we stay here for Christmas. Jani, Minako, Jim and I went for a walk today. It was very warm, not windy, high clouds, visibility at least 40 miles. – Alex Meshik from McMurdo.