Frixell Field Camp in the Dry Valleys - Dec. 2012

ICESTOCK Dec. 31, 2012

 On New Years Eve we have our anual Icestock concert outdoors. 4 pm till 1 am. Eleven  bands in nine hours. Most of the people in front of the stage here are carpenters getting ready to watch fellow carps play onstage.

 "Mother Tucker and the Snocats" (A Tucker Snocat is a big, snow grooming tracked vehicle that is used down here, specially in the deep field camps.) Eric Kroeger on vocals, Jim Rupple on guitar and Geordan McQuiston on bass. Jim ad Geordan our our bosses.

 

 Sawbucks is a fishhut that the carp shop uses to serve coffee with special sauce to concert goers.

 Captain Ed and Sparky, barristas

 Robin and Sparky

Garrett, Rachel and Sean, carps, enjoying the Sawbucks deck.

Ice People #13 - WAIS Divide

 August Allen, weather

 Betsy Spencer, cook

 Jeremy Nylander, carpenter, Washington state

 Beth Beasely (I think), field coordinator, Madrid, New Mexico

 Me, carpenter, Cincinnati, Ohio

 Kevin Lyons, carpenter, Colorado

 Tristan, carpenter, Texas

 Anna Zajicek, painter, Wisconsin

 Anna Zajicek

 Robin Carroccia, carpenter apprentice, Denver, CO

 Robin Carroccia

 David Forest (the other one), carpenter apprentice, Montana

 Anna Zajicek

 Emily Keifer, rigger

Dale P., Fairbanks, AK, Dale designed and maintains the hot water drill that the scientists use to drill through the Pine Island  Glacier.

 Beth Beasely, field coordinator, Madrid, New Mexico

 Beth Beasely

 Beth Beasely

 David Malpais, carpenter

 Graham, field coordinator

 Ewan, BAS (British Antarctic Survey) mechanic, South Africa

 Eli Duke, fuels

Eli Duke

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