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Today’s weather dawned cool, clear, and windy (you know, for a change). Luckily the wind had dropped to a borderline value of ~12 mph, just enough to stream some snow across the surface and make us very uncomfortable. On a normal day, we might not have gone out (since...

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          After two and a half tent days, we are finally out in the field again. It’s still pretty cold (-5° F), but the wind is not quite as strong as it has been (still cold enough though that we went back to camp at lunchtime to warm up a...

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So for the second straight day we are trapped in our tents. Not trapped in our tents in a “trapped by an avalanche” or “scary monster prowling outside” kind of way (unless you count when Johnny walks to the poo tent), but by something far more insidious…the wind! Today...

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Continued high winds are kicking up lots of snow over the surface.  And the winds combined with some colder temperatures (roughly -20 C or around 0 F), the wind chill is down around -30C.  So we have another tent day today.  I'll use this blog to talk a bit...

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Yesterday was a tent day, and the worst kind of tent day; it was a marginal tent day. That may seem counterintuitive, since very bad weather would seem to make a worse day. See the thing is, inside your tent the weather outside is largely immaterial, thus on a...

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  To clarify, we’re pretty much always awesome (especially me), but today we were particularly awesome. We collected 37 meteorites, and found (but didn’t collect) another 8 meteorites. Now, for the ANSMET vets, I know what you’re thinking…Meh. But there were several sets of extenuating circumstances that makes 37 quite...

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So this was going to be my epic-rant-about-my-annoying-snowmobile blog. I took notes, I made an outline, I had big plans, and then I got lazy. To be fair, this isn’t just your garden variety lazy, this was epic-food-coma lazy (and yes, this will be the excessively-hyphenated blog). I challenge...

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  Since the two-day storm earlier this week, we've been fortunate with the weather and been able to get in multiple full days of searching.  Yesterday and today, we continued searching the blue ice and (at the end of each sweep) the moraine at the edge of the ice. ...

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