Sundays Fun: Ski out to Castle Rock and climb it.

Here's whats been happening:

I was part of a trail digging crew this week.


There is a South African C-130 here on contract, flying for various countries and science groups.

I've been trying not to work too hard.

Pluggin' Along

Here's whats been going on in my world:

My radio show is going well, I had two callers last week.
We stopped taking folks out to the ice caves and now we take them out to the pressure ridges.
And my beard is coming in well

Im back from Marble point. Here was last nights 1st annual 'Freezing Man' party.
Here's some random pictures from marble and the surrounding area.

This season I volunteered to take folks out on morale trips some sundays. We go to cape evans and the ice cave, about 2 hours drive in this huge machine called a Delta.

The Cape Evans hut was built in 1910 and still stands. With the dry air and cold temps the hut is entirely intact. Alot of it looks the same as the day it was built. It looks as if the occupants just got up and left without packing.

Next stop was the ice cave. A natural occurance when the calving ice tongue coming off erebus meets the frozen sea.

One of the nice things about my new job this season is we get to go places. Last week I went on a helo ride out the the Dry Valleys. About 75 miles west of McMurdo.

We were finding and digging out an emergency fuel cache. The barrels had been untouched for at least a couple years so we were tasked with digging them out and testing them to see if the fuel was still good, or in the drums at all. About 12 drums had been used up and 15 were still there.

A quick stop at Marble point to wait for weather to change. In a couple of weeks I'm heading back here to work for about 2 weeks.

The fuel cache

Round Mountain