Happy New Year one and all, from this warm and hospitable tent in the wilds of Nodtvedt Nunataks! Yes, we have rime and ice build up on our tent, but it's still our home for the season. We all hope you have a wonderful start to 2018, and that...
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Happy New Year to you all!! We hope you had a great celebration with friends and loved ones. We certainly did! Antarctica decided that we needed to take this last day of the year off and blew extra hard winds with lots of snow around. Our tent had another...
Happy New Year's Eve everyone, Today was another tent day due to hazardous weather looming. To ring in the new year, we did a short hike up to the summit of the neighbouring nunatak. The winds were so strong we were leaning 30-45 degrees into the wind at the...
Day 15 in the deep field! And today was our most adventurous day yet. Today was also the day at which base-layer clothes were changed (in my case). 3 fresh new base-layers!!! So good! I can't even begin to describe how nice new clothes feel on my skin. Our...
Looking like a tent day today due mostly to poor lighting. So today, we bring you another "Cooking with James" episode base on last night's meal. Fetch ice from the ice mine 200m away. Chase ice bucket in the wind as it is carried away from you paying careful...
Today we woke up to blue blue skies and to 20+ knots howling winds. Again. Yesterday we took a few hours in the howling wind to prepare camp for our resupply mission that was scheduled for today. We are running very low on skidoo fuel and on propane gas...
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,...
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...
Antarctica really got our memo and today we were greeted with sunshine, blue skies, and a moderate wind only. We uncovered our skidoos and prepped everything for a long 10 hour day in the field. We went back to the ice field we started to search 2 days ago...
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...