More MAAG Pictures

Wall of Catastropic Failure back bar. Photograph by Holly Troy

Translucent dance screen. Photograph by Holly Troy

The goat path up to the shop. Photograph by Holly Troy

A dangerous type. Photograph by Kresly Gunn

Up the goat path to MAAG at the Carp Shop. Photographer unknown

A beautiful, warm night for a party. Photographer Unknown

The Centrifuge of Excellence. Photographer unknown

The Carp (carpenter) Shop. Photographer unkown

Jamesway Arches. Photographer Holly Troy

Sean Cornish's Newton's Balls made out of bowling balls and Jamesway arches. Photographer unkown

Front of the shop. Photographer unkown

Tim Nicotera's submarine. Photographer unkown

Nick in the Centrifuge of Excellence

Amy & Stephan on the goat path. Photographer Holly Troy

Jamesway arches pathway at the top of the goat path

Anna prayer wheel. Photographer Holly Troy

Jonathan's video machine. Photographer Holly Troy

Jinga! Photographer unkown

Mel Li & Sharona Thompson. Photographer Holly Troy

The Heavy Shop's light brite set made with glass bottles. Photographer Holly Troy

A Couple of Antarctica Snapshots

A gorgeous day on the road to Happy Camper (aka Snow Craft School)

The view to Mt. Erebus from the Ice Runway as weather come in.

Mad Max Party

Last Saturday the fuelies had their annual Mad Max Party which based on the three Mad Max films with Mel Gibson: Mad Max, Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome. Everyone had on their best post apocalypse fashion. Lots of sharp metal, guns and whatever anyone even remotely thought of as being appropriate. Here is some guy in a kilt, Hillary of Science Cargo, Karen Joyce of Crary IT and me.
photographer unknown

South Pole Ice Tunnel

In a few days it will be the 100th anniversity of Amundsen of Norway reaching the South Pole for the first time. A lot of "tourists" are showing up at the pole for the occasion including the King of Norway. This is not him but one of my bosses Geordan McQuiston. He is seen here in the ice tunnels below the pole holding a thermometer which reads 65 degrees below 0. This is where all the water and sewage lines run and is forty feet below the surface. Geordan and a crew of three or four carpenters went there recently to put up a couple of RAC tents to serve as a gift shop/store and information center. If ya got tourists, ya gotta have a store.
photo by Jess Ackerman

A Current Fuzzy Photo of Me

Lisa Keller, fuels operator, snapped this picture of me yesterday returning jerry can fuel nozzles to the fuels barn. The fuelies affectionately call them donkey "appendages", if you know what I mean.

Views From a Helocopter

One of the great things about this job is some times you get to fly to work in a helocopter. This is one of the glaciers in the Taylor Valley.

Lake Bonney Camp from above.

Close up of one of the ubiquitous company issued orange bags.

The Ferrar Valley
The Ice Runway on the Ross Sea

Fuel tanks at the pass and the road to Scott Base.

McMurdo Station. The long buldings on the left are the Upper Case Dorms. My dorm is 211. Of the two brown shorter buildings in the middle of the picture, 211 is the one on the right. The big building in the lower right corner is Building 155. It houses the Galley, store, computer kiosk, finance office, two ATM's, Human Resources, Housing, and REC (recreation office) along with first year dorm rooms. Basically the main building on station.

Lake Bonney Polar Havens

Dave Story, Tirzah Juskalian and Robin Carrocia styling their Big Red jackets.
Robin Carrocia, Tirzah Juskalian and Dave Story in casual wear.
Fashion by Carhart on Lake Bonney
Getting ready to head to the West Lobe to put up a Polar Haven tent.
Me
Dave Story, aka Mombok, very happy.
Robin Carrocia in Halloween headgear.
Celebratory halloween at the Lake Bonney Jamesway.
Preparing dinner on Halloween.
Four runner transportation at the narrows of Lake Bonney.
Tirzah taking here sled and going home.

Robin and Tirzah. Tirzah was sporting the one piece pink snow suit at work all day on Halloween. Robin did not wear her flashy headgear all day because she is just not a team player.

All our gear
The Polar Haven frame is up. Tirzah is working the Kovax drill to make V-loop anchors in the lake ice.
West Lobe Polar Haven Floor which rests on jacks so that as the ice melts under the jacks, the floor can be leveled.

The West Lobe of Lake Bonney with the Taylor Glacier and Blood Falls in the background.