It's felt like a regular season the last two days because we've been able to go out and search - not yet for a whole day, but at least for an afternoon, a morning and an afternoon! We are getting used to what cold weather clothing works for us...
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Ok, it's getting a little ridiculous- we just can't seem to get our last two put-in flights to come to EET! It was actually beautiful weather today; sunny, blue skies, low wind, but apparently there was some cloud deck between here and McMurdo that the pilots couldn't fly through...
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Today was not too exciting day. Our flight got cancelled due to weather, so we went out 3.5 miles away and picked 5 of old fuel drums up and came back. Hope weather corporate tomorrow, so we get our ski-doo and rest of gears in. So, I decided showing...
Today, on January 5, we were all finally together in the field, we were all well, and we couldn't go out and work, so we had Christmas! We cooked some tasty pizzas using the ingredients we had on hand, since only about half of our food boxes are out...
Today was another exciting day (Am I saying that every day perhaps?..). We didn't get any flight in, so we work hard all day long. In the morning, we went out to old camp site (1996) where old fuel drums were buried. We dig those drums and brought...
Here's one more pic from today, we're just so happy to be all together again!
Today was another exciting day. In the morning, it was still gray here. As we expected, we got weather delay. After a couple hours of strong wind, it became completely blue sky! Then shortly after lunch, twin otter showed up! Yes, Jim and Alex finally made...
It was gray here today, which always makes it a little spooky and hard to see what you're walking or driving over. That's right - driving - we got onto the skidoos today and went for a ride! We rode out to an old Elephant Moraine camp cache to...