Not quite yet…
First and last Hercs of the day have been canceled, and ours (the second) has been pushed to a 1700 departure time. We’re betting it’s not going to go – […]
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Surprise!
Today was an awesome day. Got up early and tromped around the base. Rumor from the would-be Polies who’d been stuck here for two weeks was that they were going […]
Fingy
Swirling through 155 in search of my first meal, I ran into Karen Joyce, my POC (point of contact) here in McMurdo. She introduced me to David and uhh… Natalie? […]
Man Camp
Not sure if I’ve mentioned it, but McMurdo is having an unprecedented housing shortage. We’re here to support the scientists, and the NSF has manifested a few more than the […]
MacTown
My first impressions of McMurdo are that, despite the inherent otherworldliness of the continent, it’s all manageable. That first breath of Antarctic air, walking across the ice runway to Ivan […]
Ice Flight!
[Pictures now online at http://picasaweb.google.com/david.cohn/20101030Iceflight%5D 0915 NZDT Last night, by the time I’d turned off the lights, three different pieces of paper had been slipped under my door, each amending our […]
If you want to hear the gods laugh…
Today was a lovely day. Went hiking with Rolf (meteorologist) and Megan (heavy equipment driver) around the coastal town of Sumner, up over the Scarborough Bluff down into Taylor’s Mistake. […]
Ice Delay, Big Red vs Little Green
Got the note slipped under my door that our ice flight has been pushed back by a day. USAP has been wrestling with a housing crunch at McMurdo, which is […]
Christchurch
Christchurch isn’t what I expected. Then again, I’ve been so absorbed with the process of getting ready to go out to the ice, I hadn’t put any thought into actually […]
Tuesday?
The flight. About as uneventful a being blasted across the globe for a day and a half could be. Noticed, as we touched down Wednesday afternoon, that we missed out […]
