It is likely we stay here for Christmas. Jani, Minako, Jim and I went for a walk today. It was very warm, not windy, high clouds, visibility at least 40 miles. – Alex Meshik from McMurdo.
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I'll bet ours is not the first ANSMET blog entry with this title... When you're in Antarctica, you can expect to get all gussied up and ready to fly, and then be left at the doorstop, day after day. This was the first day we were all really expecting...
Hi everyone. It's Minako. Today was exciting Sunday here. We had a special tour of Discovery Hut, built during the Discovery Expedition of 1901-1904. Now The hut has been designated a Historic Site or Monument.Once you enter the hut, your nose get stung from strong animal smell. There is...
The alternate title for this blog entry is "The Waiting Game". We are in that state where we get together for an early breakfast, hopefully checking the flight manifest screens and typically seeing our flights up there (yeay!), but then peering around the wall at the outside weather and...
Hi all, just a quick note since I'm in Sydney and have 4 hours to kill. Duck and I sat at Willy field until 1 pm yesterday while the crew waited for the ground fog to burn off. Would have been awful but Some kind souls brought us pizza...
Our cargo is now reconfigured for one 6-person team and we are ready to go to the EET camp. We need seven Twin Otter flights to transfer our team, all our gears and supplies, a small fraction of which is shown in the picture. – Alex from McMurdo.
Now that we're pretty officially headed for Elephant Moraine, which is accessible from McMurdo by Twin Otter, we got to see all our gear again, get it out of the big triwalls, weigh it, measure it, and put it back into the cargo stream. It was satisfying to get...
That the Antarctic Gods control the weather here is known to all Antarctic travelers. What is less appreciated is that the gods also control activities that humans mistakenly think are under their control. Take for example, cashes of aviation fuel out at Shackleton Glacier camp. Our plans to fly...
After 24 hours of wondering, proposing, and negotiating (in both the maneuvering and bargaining senses) we have a new plan. We're sending our field team of 6 to Elephant Moraine.
There's a lot of work associated with this switch- basically all the work that went into organizing our cargo for Shackleton...
This has been a busy, shocking afternoon, as our existing plans for this season were completely tossed out and new, leaner plans are being built on the foundations.
It all started about 1:30 this afternoon when I saw a friend in the Crary lab that shouldn't be there- it was...