WAIS Carpenter Put-in Crew

WAIS Put-in, part 2

WAIS Divide Deep Field Camp Put-in

Arriving on the Bassler for the first day of camp put-in

 

Digging out the Tucker Sno-cat

Condition of everything stored on the winter berm

The Tucker with the sun seen through the exhaust of the Herman Nelson heaters

Stephanie, setting up the radio antennae

Stephanie, Weather

Tucker Sno-cat engine before it is cleaned out

Carp Shop Photo

This year's carpenter shop mainbody photo before everyone heads off in a million directions. It has been an interesting year with the new contractor Lockheed. Some things change, but a lot stays the same. I will be heading out tomorrow for the put-in for WAIS Camp. There are some good people on the WAIS crew this year. WAIS is where they do deep ice core drilling to study the gases trapped there as far back as a 100,000 years ago. Six of us will be flying out on a small plane with more people to follow. The other deep field camps on the West Antarctic Plateau this year are Byrd Camp, which will be much smaller than last year, PIG (Pine Island Glacier) Camp at which science didn't quite happen because of weather, so they will try again this year, and Siple which is mostly a refueling stop for planes.

Orin's Antarctica Photos

Moon over Mt. Erebus. 
All photos in the post were taken by Orin Salah, an electrician and excellent photographer at McMurdo Station, and posted with his permission. His girlfriend Liz works in the Carp Shop.

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 Scott Base. New Zealand's research station two miles down the road from McMurdo

 South Pole

 Ross Sea

 Hercules C-130 at the South Pole

 Discovery Hut at Hut Point, McMurdo Station

Ice People #12

 Nick Romano, carpenter, next to the Carp Shop's Pisten Bully 321

Kevin Williams, aka "Kdub", Fleet Ops/Haz Waste with his beard that he started last year.

Southern Exposure

 Aurora viewed from Fortress Rocks above McMurdo. Photo by Sandwich

The road from LDB during Condition 2