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2016 / 2017 Field Season
We had another tent day today - this time winds are up at mid-high 20s (knots) and temps a little below zero. It's so beautiful to look at all the wind forms around camp, from the large, soft dunes with ever forming ripples, to the hardening sastrugi between the...
Tent dayThis morning the outside temperature was -9F, ~ 12 knots wind and blowing snow. These condition forced us to spent most of the day in the tents reading, listening audiobooks, chatting and napping. At 6 pm John and I went out for a dinner at Jani’s and...
Today was our first "full day search" day of the season. It means we went out all day long, ate lunch out on the ice field. It was pretty cold and windy this morning. It was around -7F when we left our camp. Plus around 15 knots...
Today we got out for a full day of searching - we're so proud of ourselves! :) Between waiting for field party members, and then flights, to come in, plus having a spate of bad weather, it's been hard for us to get out all day. But we finally...
Today was pretty windy day. Two twin otter flights came to our camp, dropped the rest of gears we were waiting for. Two ski-doos (now we all have very own ski-doo!), more drums of fuel, more food boxes. We were actually getting low on some food items, so...
It's felt like a regular season the last two days because we've been able to go out and search - not yet for a whole day, but at least for an afternoon, a morning and an afternoon! We are getting used to what cold weather clothing works for us...
Ok, it's getting a little ridiculous- we just can't seem to get our last two put-in flights to come to EET! It was actually beautiful weather today; sunny, blue skies, low wind, but apparently there was some cloud deck between here and McMurdo that the pilots couldn't fly through...
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Today was not too exciting day. Our flight got cancelled due to weather, so we went out 3.5 miles away and picked 5 of old fuel drums up and came back. Hope weather corporate tomorrow, so we get our ski-doo and rest of gears in. So, I decided showing...