{"id":1654,"date":"2014-12-10T12:08:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T17:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2014-12-10T21:37:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T02:37:58","slug":"a-day-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2014\/12\/10\/a-day-off\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1655\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2014\/12\/14204026\/image15-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225px\" height=\"300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2014\/12\/14204026\/image15-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2014\/12\/14204026\/image15.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>The team had a day off today.\u00a0 If all had gone according to the best case schedule, we would have had our first group deploy to the transition area <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1625176997\"><span class=\"aQJ\">tomorrow<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 But, as it often happens here, we have been caught by weather delays.\u00a0 A runway grooming team was supposed to fly out <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1625176998\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Monday<\/span><\/span> to assess and groom the runway that we will be using to haul in our gear.\u00a0 They did not make it out of McMurdo until today.\u00a0 We are hopeful that we will hear a favorable report from them on the status of the runway <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1625176999\"><span class=\"aQJ\">tomorrow<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1656 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2014\/12\/14204025\/image21-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2014\/12\/14204025\/image21-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2014\/12\/14204025\/image21.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>In the meantime, we wait.\u00a0 Because we are in this holding pattern, we pretty much had a free day today.\u00a0 Most of us took advantage of the time to do some of the shorter hikes in the area.\u00a0 This morning Devon, Christine, Vinciane and I hiked up &#8220;Observation Hill&#8221;. I am not sure how tall this hill is, but getting to the top is a reasonably steep climb.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon Brian, Ralph, Ryan and I walked over to the New Zealand Scott Base and back.\u00a0 Scott Base is about two miles Sent from my iPad<\/p>\n<p>Photo 1:\u00a0 Devon, Vinciane and Christine climbing Observation Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Photo 2:\u00a0 Vinciane after conquering the climb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team had a day off today.\u00a0 If all had gone according to the best case schedule, we would have had our first group deploy to the transition area tomorrow.\u00a0 But, as it often happens here, we have been caught by weather delays.\u00a0 A runway grooming team was supposed to fly out Monday to assess and groom the runway that we will be using to haul in our gear.\u00a0 They did not make it out of McMurdo until today.\u00a0 We are hopeful that we will hear a favorable report from them on the status of the runway tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2014\/12\/10\/a-day-off\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Day Off<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":1655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[8,1,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2014\/12\/14204026\/image15.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}