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 Nødtvedt Nunatak is one cold, windy, place. The winds this morning were strong but we ventured to the blue ice regardless. With some oatmeal in our bellies (it'll be oakmeal per Juliane once our dried fruit runs out in a couple days) and some convincing to wake "Sparky" up,...

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 Another tent day. We're not going out to collect our elusive extraterrestrial quarry on this the 28th December. Weather is not cooperating, so we have to make a day of it in our 7 x 7 foot home. Drinking a cup of coffee as I write, as the side of...

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Have the tides turned? This morning started out a bit rough. Yesterday's storm decided to bully "Sparky". We all chipped in to dig it out of the snow and eventually freed it to get on with the day. The morning brought some nice scenery and a few meteorites. We...

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We are all human. Even in the Antarctic. We eat, we drink, we expend lots of energy. But what of those functions we don't typically mention? At home, with you, you likely have running water, flushing toilets, and sanitation. Here, we deal with ice, ice, and more ice. Making...

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 The winds ramped up yesterday afternoon and continued through the night and into today. Our best guess is between the temperature and the wind, we're sitting somewhere around -70C with the windchill today - maybe lower. James bravely leaped a considerable snow drift to dig out our tent door...

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 Antarctica... the frozen frontier. These are the voyages of ANSMET Team Bravo. Our continuing mission, to recover possible remnants of strange new worlds, to seek out new irons and new chondrites... to coldly go where no one has gone before. Pan out. John begins singing the Next Generation theme...

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 It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas (eve)... With the poor lighting today making a trek to the blue ice not advisable, we put the finishing touches up on camp and made a short run to Nødtvedt Nunatak (and hiked to the top) to get a view of...

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