This morning we awoke in our Scott tents. This was the first night sleeping ‘out on the ice’. We had been camp bound since the day before, when a snow storm rolled in during our Shakedown trial run (see photo of the storm in full force). Plans to summit...
Yearly Archives: 2012
Editor's note: the more common term is "Shakedown" , but Tom's a newbie. (rph)
It's late afternoon and the weather is relatively calm and snowy. The Scott tents are all lined up perpendicular to the wind direction and the snowmobiles are parked in a row downwind from the tents and...
Today, we had another busy day, having a solar power tutorial, snowmobile operation lecture and preparation for the overnight “shake down” trip tomorrow. Under the midnight sun in the Antarctic summer, solar power is a definitely powerful source except on snow-storm days (See the first picture). For the six...
Today has been a training day. For the newbies (like me), a lot of the details of how we will be hunting for meteorites is new. This continent can turn nasty very quickly, so one can't just walk around casually hoping to find some sky rocks! Imagine doing systematic...
Sound like paradise? Well, it exists here in McMurdo at the Berg Field Center. This is where we spent much of our day today, familiarizing ourselves with the Food Room at the BFC (which, of course, is stocked with many more goodies beyond bacon and chocolates!) and with the...
Hello! The 2012-2013 ANSMET meteorite hunting team is now assembled in McMurdo Station Antarctica. There are twelve of us from four countries ( USA, Canada, Japan and the UK), eight guys and four girls. Seven of us have been on ANSMET...
The ANSMET teams did their clothing distribution yesterday, and are scheduled to fly from Christchurch, New Zealand to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, in just a few hours. Hopefully within a day or two we'll be hearing from them in McMurdo! A picture of their likely aircraft (a military C-17)...
ANSMET's 2012-2013 field season has begun, and is going to be busy. Two teams are on their way to McMurdo Station, Antarctica as I write this and should arrive in the next few days. Advanced personnel (two mountaineers and the science leader) are already in McMurdo and eagerly...