crazy weather day

The weather was a bit crazy today. As for the past 2 days, we were back up to get a resupply flight, so I got to take and pass to McMurdo weather observations for the flight weather forecasters. I took one at 6am and at 7am -- and they...

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We are all awesome!

  To clarify, we’re pretty much always awesome (especially me), but today we were particularly awesome. We collected 37 meteorites, and found (but didn’t collect) another 8 meteorites. Now, for the ANSMET vets, I know what you’re thinking…Meh. But there were several sets of extenuating circumstances that makes 37 quite...

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Quick and Dirty

So this was going to be my epic-rant-about-my-annoying-snowmobile blog. I took notes, I made an outline, I had big plans, and then I got lazy. To be fair, this isn’t just your garden variety lazy, this was epic-food-coma lazy (and yes, this will be the excessively-hyphenated blog). I challenge...

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Food glorious Food

              Image Caption 1: Breakfast on a Tent Day…blueberry pancakes with maple syrup! I feel like Bill Murray. Well, not exactly Bill Murray, since not even my considerable hubris lets me think I am that funny, but I do feel a little like Phil Connors at least. I’ll wait a minute...

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