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I have returned to McMurdo Station, Antarctica for a fifth season in the carpenter shop, or carp shop, as it is known here. My season started late August and goes till February. The weather is below zero, but will get up to a very comfortable 38 degrees in Dec. and Jan. There are over a thousand people working and living here supporting the United States National Science Foundation program. Lockheed-Martin is the new contractor this year for McMurdo.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

BYRD Deep Field Camp

Thanksgiving dinner

I was on the second flight scheduled to go to BYRD to set up the camp. We ended up being delayed about two and a half weeks and so ended up spending Thanksgiving out there. The five carppenters on the first flight had there hands full. After being delayed they discovered that crates had been blown off the winter berm during the winter. These are very heavy crates. Three crates containing Kuma stoves were completely destroyed. The carps spent three entire days digging boxes out of the snow. Yea, lots of fun. Then they had condition one weather for a couple of days where you can't leave your tent let alone work. They had been there for a total of two weeks when the weather got better and allowed another four of us to come in. The camp was very happy to see us. We were lucky and had pretty good weather and were able to finish setting everything up in a week.

Thanksgiving spread in the galley. Rob and Tom were amazing cooks


Tent City


My tent


One of the outhouses


Setting up Jamesway vestibule

Setting up the "Tweedy" tent


Setting up the Galley RAC tent


The "Chief", the carps warming tent and hang out place

Havoc on the winter berm
Posted by Forrest Antarctica at 7:38 PM

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