John, Steve, Jani and I are still snugly ensconced at CTAM, surrounded by gorgeous mountains, sparkling glacial plains, and sunny skies. We've spent a couple of days grooming - not the personal kind, but using our skidoos to drag a heavy metal contraption behind us, lopping off the sastrugi...
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-A post from Morgan…...
Jim, Manavi, Alex and I are here in McMurdo, all packed up and ready to join Jani, Barb, Steve, and John out at CTAM tomorrow (hopefully). A friend we made here says the key to coping with constant schedule changes is maintaining a "zen-like detachment" to flight plans....
Hi, Alex Meshik sent me the following "photolog" from McMurdo…..
Ralph, we are waiting for Tuesday to fly out of McMurdo. Our present activity is limited to walking around, eating and sleeping. Today we walked to the Scott Base looking for suspiciously looking rocks on the way. None of...
Yesterday, our first wave (Johnny, Steve, Barbara and I) finally made it out into the field on the big LC-130 aircraft, the same kind that brought us to McMurdo from Christchurch. These are amazing aircraft, run by the New York Air National Guard unit because they also support operations...
quick note here from Ralph, no photo attached. Just got an email from Jim saying that he and his half of the team (morgan, alex and manavi) are still in McMurdo. John, Steve, Barb and Jani made it out to CTAM but the plane suffered some insult during...
When we listened to our environmental briefing last week, one of the things he said was that here at McMurdo, we're very disconnected from both our supply line and our waste disposal. We get amazing food from the galley, but we don't grow it here. We sort our trash,...
We woke up so excited this morning to a beautiful McMurdo day. Skies were warm and clear. Johnny, Steve, Barbara and I got all of our things together, put our ECW gear on, and marched up the hill to catch our shuttle to the runway. We knew we were...
Dear ANSMET-ophiles,
It is Tuesday (Monday in the US, the day the Bears will lose to Dallas) in McMurdo Station and according to our schedule that means that ANSMET team G-058 is deployment ready and will to start the sequence this evening. We completed the planned frozen food "pull" yesterday, loaded 6 tri-walls (triple layered cardboard container on a pallet) with...
Before anyone gets uppity about the title, I'm allowed to use the word "Fixins" by right of birth- my father was born in the hills of Tennessee.
The field team is scrambling to get 100 things done today- tomorrow (tuesday our time, wednesday your time) they hope to start flying...