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 […]
Category Archives: antarctica
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 […]
Enroute: LAX
Made it to LAX an hour or so late – delayed, ironically, by an arctic storm sweeping down over western Colorado. Team is now wandering the terminal in search of […]
Much better, thanks.
I got a lot of soothing reassurances after that last post (thanks!) and yes, today was much better. Got to meet a lot of the rest of the Pole team […]
TDY.
Saturday, 5 a.m. and my head’s still spinning. Two days into TDY (“temporary duty”) in Denver, and my mental balance has tipped way over into what-the-hell-am-I-doing-land. Okay, I’d spent a […]
David Pablo Cohn 