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Went to Castle Rock for a sunset Nodwell trip. So amazing!

Via Flickr:
Castle Rock sunset Nodwell trip.

Raised ice feet

Sastrugi are compacted ice imprints. The snow around them blows away. Snow is not a good word. Tiny ice crystals.

Weather = -41F, -80F windchill. Gusts up to 37

Man this is not the weather to go outside in but we did! Drove around town with Ed and did tank dips. The Pass was crazy! Standing was hard.

That's condition 2 cold

Yep, it is finally really Fing cold!

Perfect day out

Did sea ice training. We took a Hagglunds out to find and profile cracked in the sea ice. Amazing. Went around & close to the Erebus Glacier Tong and Inaccessible island. Photos soon.

The Island

Ross Island that is, from the day tank at the Ice Runway. One of the jobs I have is to fill the tank so the equipment operators don't have to come back to town to re-fuel. The perk for me is getting off the island and driving Delta Scharen

Weather

It is feeling like winfly again. We were packing (filling with fuel) hose by the heliport and it was crazy windy! Tonight we watch "Dancing Outlaw" and "The Room". Why? Because.

Saw so many nacreous clouds yesterday & this morning. When to Scott base transition to fuel dozers and saw both Mt. Erebus and Mt. Terror

Storm broke

Back to work clearing 3 days worth of blown tiny ice crystals and filling tanks and making runways.

These are the storm

The storms that keep us up at night, and all day.
http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/data/view-data.php?action=list&product=satellite/composite
Check out the Infrared animations

weather is even better today!

To much wind to work outside. Making hose and testing fuel is on the
plate today.

Cold today

Pretty awesome day! Did town work as it was not a good day to be out and about

Cold today

Pretty awesome day! Did town work as it was not a good day to be out and about

So crazy weather, well more normal.

Pretty awesome day! Did town work as it was not a good day to be out and about.

On the Ice

Literally on the ice, sea ice that is. Filled up some dozers with Delta Scharen on the sea ice. The dozers are pushing and blowing snow to make a road to where the ice runway will be.