Andrew Beck, G-058, Sunday January 21st, Otway Massif, Antarctica
Four of the G-058 team members were picked up by LC-130 last Friday and are currently in McMurdo Station. The LC-130's are big, but they aren’t big enough to get the whole team and our cargo out of the field in...
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Katie Joy, Recon Team, 19th January, 2012, SOUTH POLE
Hello. Hope you are well. The ANSMET recon team have escaped 13 straight tent days and the bad weather of Szabo Bluff, and are currently all safely housed at the USAP Amundsun-Scott South Pole Station! The clouds and fog lifted this...
Tomoko Arai, Recon Team, 18th January, 2013, Szabo Bluff
The end of the Antarctic summer season is approaching, but the weather today was still not unfortunately good enough for us to get back to the McMurdo. We need to fly from here to the Klein glacier by the Twin Otter...
Katie Joy, Recon Team, 17th January 2013, Szabo Bluff
‘Tent day 11, in the Big-ANSMET house…’. If someone could please vote us out of the field that would be great – just dial 'SEND-LC130' and press 1 for Joe, 2 for John, 3 for Tomoko, and 4 for Katie. Your...
Marianne Mader, Systematic Team, Jan. 16, 2012 Otway Camp, Beardmore Region, Antarctica
We’re now at the Otway campsite, our final Antarctic home in the field and location of the ‘landing strip’ (i.e., flat snow surface) for the C-130 Hercules plane. It took us three attempts, but we finally managed to...
Tomoko Arai, Recon Team, 16th January, 2013, Szabo Bluff
Hi! Ten days have passed since we were tent-bound on Jan 7th. The weather has never been good except afternoon in Jan 12th. Strong wind, low surface definition, and snow mounds around the tents, have made it hard for us to...
Hi, Ralph Harvey here, PI of ANSMET.
The field team has asked me to fill you in on news from this season that didn't show up in the blog because they weren't sure how to deal with; there's more to the "Groundhog Day at Larkman" story from a few...
Katie Joy, Recon Team, 14th January 2013, Szabo Bluff
Guess what – we have moved and are currently enjoying a nice glass of red wine back in McMurdo. We are sitting in comfy chairs with cushions, and have had showers and washed our hair. No only kidding. We are still...
Tomoko Arai, 12th January, 2013, Szabo Bluff
Hello, everyone! I hope everything is going well. Inconceivably, we have been tent-bound for six days! We originally planned to move to a different campsite prior to heading back to the Klein glacier, where we landed and stayed for several days in the...
Andrew Beck, January 13th, 2013, Larkman Nunatak, G-058
As my tentmate Jim put it, "the last few days have been like a scene out of the movie Groundhog Day". Yesterday, January 12th, we broke camp at Larkman Nunatak for the second time and tried to make our way to Mt....