Tomoko Arai, 12th January, 2013, Szabo Bluff
Hello, everyone! I hope everything is going well. Inconceivably, we have been tent-bound for six days! We originally planned to move to a different campsite prior to heading back to the Klein glacier, where we landed and stayed for several days in the...
2012 / 2013 Field Season
Andrew Beck, January 13th, 2013, Larkman Nunatak, G-058
As my tentmate Jim put it, "the last few days have been like a scene out of the movie Groundhog Day". Yesterday, January 12th, we broke camp at Larkman Nunatak for the second time and tried to make our way to Mt....
Rob Coker, Larkman Nunatak, January 10, 2013 (G-058)
I warned them. I warned them not to go. I warned them not to go to the old camp. I had heard stories about the members of that expedition (Linda most especially) that gave me chills: they came back from the ice...
Katie Joy, Recon Team, 10th January 2013, Szabo Bluff
Well, regrettably there is not a lot of meteorite action to report from Szabo Bluff. For the last four days we have been tent bound waiting for the opportunity to change camp. We have two days where the wind blew and...
Priscilla King, Recon Team, 8th January 2013, Szabo Bluff
Well hello there darlings. I am my holiday from the Ross Sea (really the leopard seals are a nightmare this time of year) and upon my hike through the mountains I stumbled across the ANSMET recon team camp. Well you can...
Monday, Jan. 7 Tom Sharp, Systematic Search Team G-058
We are nearly done with our tasks and Larkman Nunatak and it is time to clean up before we depart for our next camp at Cecily-Raymond Nunatak. We have completed the systematic search of all the blue ice in the area...
Tomoko Arai, Recon team, 6th January 2013, Szabo Bluff
Though it has been a bit windy these last two days, we did go out for meteorite search on several blue ice fields around Szabo Bluff. We are glad that fourteen meteorites were recovered yesterday, and one beautiful large carbonaceous chondrite...
Stan Love, G-058 Larkman Nunatak Camp 2013 January 5
Every Scott tent in every field camp in Antarctica has a chandelier hanging from the apex. Here is a picture of ours.
The photo may be a bit hard to interpret. Recall that the Scott tent is shaped like a pyramid about...
Katie Joy, Recon Team, 4th January 2013, Szabo Bluff
The recon team are back in the meteorite searching game. With style I might add. We have had two tent days as it was a snowing and a blowing, with some white out conditions. This morning it was still a bit...
Rob Coker, January 3rd 2013, Larkman Nunatak
Since my mother (hi, mom!) asked the other day about clothes down here, I thought I'd write a bit about how we not only stay safe from the cold but also from overheating. This balancing of hot and cold is called thermostatting. To...