(Note from the editor: the low bandwidth of the Iridium email system can have strange effects as it shuffles data from one satellite to another, then downlinks to servers which may choke up with messages, resulting in emails squirting out of buffers days after they were sent. That's what...
2013/ 2014 Field Season
Good News deserves to be repeated verbatim......
Hello Ralph-
Just wanted to let you know that I spoke with Johnny Schutt tonight, and ALL members of G-058 are now happily camping together at South Miller Range. They had a long, successful day moving from CTAM. They were very much looking forward...
Hi all, I didn't hear from the ANSMET folks at Miller Range or CTAM directly, but I did hear from my McMurdo colleagues. The four ANSMET folks at CTAM (Jim, Jani, Manavi and Alex) spent the night there. They are scheduled to start Twin Otter flights up to...
Hi all, a little third-hand news courtesy of friends in McMurdo. The four ANSMET people who had been stranded for so long in McMurdo made it to CTAM late yesterday after one of the wierdest, longest delays in our 35+ year history of field work. They...
Whoever said “Life’s good but not fair at all” knew what he was saying. Here’s the perfect example: all of us stuck at McMurdo were on a backup mission to two primary missions flying this morning. One of them got cancelled due to weather early in the morning which...
Okay, just got an update from both Alex and Manavi that they're still in McMurdo but hopeful for today.
Manavi said......." We didn't make it out yesterday. We are backup to a Union Glacier and Pole flight today (28th) and the Union Glacier flight just got cancelled about an hour ago...
No posts from either team in the last two days strongly suggests the mcmurdo group are finally on the move. As noted previously, the folks already at Miller Range don't have a lot of electrical capacity so they're not posting, and if they're on the move, the McMurdo...
Christmas dinner is ready.
The McMurdo branch of the ANSMET team: Jim, Morgan, Manavi and Alex.
Manavi has a B-day on Dec-24, Jim on Dec-26. What a coincidence!
Manavi spent a part of her birthday at the beach.
Sunbathing at the McMurdo beach. It is different from Hawaii beaches.
We are pretty far from...
Greetings from McMurdo, where half of the ANSMET will be spending Christmas! Two LC-130s arrived here yesterday from Christchurch so we were optimistic about getting out to CTAM today. Getting the Herc that's currently stuck at the South Pole back to McMurdo is the priority for flights on continent...
I just got off the phone after talking to the half of our people that are in the Miller Range. They are in a fantastic mood, very upbeat and feeling fine. They haven't posted a blog in a while because they have very limited ability to charge up electronics;...