![\"02-greenland-huskies-sledge-670.jpg\"](\"webkit-fake-url:\/\/007B28BC-1133-401E-8FA4-ACE815285906\/02-greenland-huskies-sledge-670.jpg\")
Greenland huskies on the ice early in Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Photograph by the famous Antarctic photographer Hurley, from the Lines on the Ice<\/strong> exhibit, \u00a0Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Australia.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n Meanwhile the leadership folks (Jim and John) are doing all that PLUS wheeling and dealing to get the planes to the right place with the right gear at the right time. \u00a0Even more\u00a0important, \u00a0they work to NOT let critical stuff get separated from the folks who need it. Mawson learned that lesson\u00a0100 years ago; \u00a0don’t put all your food on one sledge. \u00a0 Making sure every person has the means of survival in hand may not sound too hard (make a list, check it twice), \u00a0but when you’ve got multiple planes in motion, 8 people and 16,000 lbs of cargo moving in a complicated chain-of-custody gavotte, it takes a Santa-like memory.<\/p>\n So let’s all turn southward and send\u00a0our best hopes and dreams to the team, \u00a0a little psychic energy to keep them calm and in motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No word from the 2015-2016 field team in the past 24 hours is almost certainly good news.<\/p>\n There’s no better word to use than “hustle” for this\u00a0put-in period. The field team members are scrambling all over McMurdo to get their field gear together, their personal belongings stowed for their return, \u00a0clean up their dorm rooms, send those last emails and get to the MCC for transport to the airport. Then that all starts again when you’re at the airfield. \u00a0Do I have time for one last civilized pee? \u00a0 How much juice should I drink before that earlier question\u00a0becomes critical? \u00a0<\/p>\n