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Today was pretty windy day. Two twin otter flights came to our camp, dropped the rest of gears we were waiting for. Two ski-doos (now we all have very own ski-doo!), more drums of fuel, more food boxes. We were actually getting low on some food items, so...

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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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From Alex. :) Sent from Iridium Mail & Web.

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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...

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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...

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Here's one more pic from today, we're just so happy to be all together again!

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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...

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