Looks like today is going to be a tent day. The winds are very calm and it is actually snowing ever so lightly. We may scoot out to cover a tiny patch of blue ice near by we haven't searched yet but Prestrud is off the table for today....
2017 / 2018 Field Season
We have reasonably well settled into our adventurous and minimalistic life style here in the middle of nowhere in Antarctica. Today was our 4th full day out here. It is cold here, with air temperatures -8F (-22C), but the wind makes it much much colder. We are starting to...
Today was a perfect Antarctic summer day. Not a single breeze and a clear sky minus some wispy cirrus clouds. We set off around 09:00 to search more of the moraines and some blue ice we had only partially visited prior. The morning did not provide any cosmic fruit...
Team B recovered its first meteorite today! After not much to be found on a quick scouting trip yesterday, it felt good to get one flagged today. It is a tough area for hunting meteorites. There are lots of terrestrial rocks littering the blue ice and there is quite...
Today was our first full day at Mt. Wisting. We finished setting up camp and getting our skidoos ready. After lunch we traversed some blue ice and walked a moraine but there were only meteorwrongs from what we could see. It was a very beneficial exercise especially for both...
Warm wishes from Mt. Wisting!
Team B was successfully put in today with four Twin Otter flights. It was a beautiful day continent-wide but the winds picked up as the day went on. We arrived at the field site around 16:30. The winds were pushing 20 KTs and it made...
Today was our first full day in the field. We were deployed out yesterday and arrived in the deep field around 11:30am. For the rest of the day we we set up our tents and sorted bags, food boxes and science equipment. Our camp is composed of 4 Scott...
Happy Thursday!
Team A (Jim, Brian, Barb, Juliane) have been deployed! They boarded on their fifth and final Twin Otter flight (third today), making their way to Mt. Cecily where they'll spend the next six weeks. We thought they might have needed a sixth flight, but, in addition to being...
I got a call from Jim Karner at Shackleton camp a little while ago and thought I'd share what I learned.
First, everyone is doing great, at Shackleton, and Team A's transition up to the Mts. Emily, Cecily and Raymond area (the Grosvenor Mts) is well underway. They've sent three...
Greetings from Shackleton!
A joint blog post today from both Juliane and Scott, perhaps the final joint post before Team A gets deployed to their field site tomorrow (hopefully).
To update last night's brief post, we left Williams Field at McMurdo and were wheels/skis up on our third take-off attempt -...