Finally the winds have dropped

Katie Joy、Recon Team, 29th December 2012, Graves Icefield Woohoo - today was the first day since the 19th December (when we moved to this field camp site) that we have had relatively calm winds, without driving snow. Finally the tents have stopped flapping, which brings some peace and quiet to camp life. Although we weren’t able to move to our new field...

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A record day

Andrew Beck, December 29th, Larkman Nunatak We collected 44 meteorites today, the most we have collected in a single day this year! Today's collection site was the same as the previous few days, the youngest in a sequence of end moraines at the base of Larkman Nunatak. A picture from...

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Christmas at Larkman Nunatak

Tom Sharp, Dec. 27 It was Christmas Eve for ANSMET G-058 and the wind was really blowing. You could hear the drifting snow hitting the side if the tent. I had trouble getting to sleep, listening to the constant sounds of small ice crystals impacting the tent next to my...

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Refreshed hair for moving

Tomoko Arai, Recon team, 28th December 2012, South Graves icefield Unfortunately, we are still stuck in the wind storm here. We have been here for ten days and could only go out to meteorite search for just a total of several hours! We heard good news from the main team...

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Recon team still stuck in our tents

Katie Joy、Recon Team, 27th December 2012, Graves Icefields Predictably today the katabatic wind is still blowing hard from the south at about 30-35 knots preventing us from moving campsite to a new icefield, and once again we have been tentbound. It is incredibly frustrating to not be productive, but we have been occupying ourselves sleeping, eating (lots of eating) and reading...

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Stop blowing !!!

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...

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An Otter for Christmas

Stan Love Larkman Nunatak camp 2012 December 26 On the International Space Station, the arrival of any visiting vehicle is a big event. The same is true in a field camp in Antarctica. Today a ski-equipped Twin Otter airplane delivered the remainder of our fuel and supplies that the LC-130 Hercules...

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