We celebrated our successful dig by grabbing some drinks at Gallaghers, and then I made my way back to Crary where I am now. It’s basically like drinking liquid smokey wood.Today, I started my day off pretty normally with no expectations of doing anything but coding and troubleshooting in the lab.
trailer (Left) Net After a 5 hour flight on a C-17 Globe Master, we touched down on Phoenix Field, Antarctica. In 1992 the Chief's Club was still the Chief's
Theme images by Josh Peterson. Yikes.
We got back to Willie Field by about 7:15 PM and into McMurdo by 8:00 PM. On arrival, we met up with Thomas Nylen, a technician from UNAVCO, and began digging for the APS’s power supply buried below 4 feet of snow The CO and XO of NSFA were down the hall,
The downside to it?
startxref He Experienced the best that unique continent had to offer and proudly lived to "show and tell" about it.
We didn’t waste any time upon return, and the team visited 3 AWS on 23 January: Willie Field and Phoenix by truck, and Lorne by helicopter on a “night flight”, meaning we flew after dinner with the night crew. The Willy Field Tavern was located (of course) at Willy Field.
Of course that never stopped me... Willy Field Tavern. Willy Field was reopened.
nicely stocked bar. Laundry machine use, detergent and dryer sheets are all free. With ten-foot drifts burying planes and buildings out at Willie Field, the snow shovelers worked all day and night so the first plane could leave at 10:00 this morning. Mark and I both worked tirelessly on digging on the last of the 3 towers, rocking it back and forth to break it free from the frozen snow before finally lifting it out. Other McMurdo Station airfields include the The Williams Field snow runway is known locally as "Willy's Field".
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The first planes of the 2018-2019 Summer Season touched down at McMurdo Station’s Phoenix Airfield at 3 pm in the afternoon on October 16 after more than two weeks of weather delays, the longest postponement of season-opening in recent memory.
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biggest party of the year!!
A couple of AE's liberated some of the decorations from the Tavern and the 0000000016 00000 n How did I know? 0000089209 00000 n 0000012247 00000 n We cut the rest of the tower guidewires anchored beneath the snow, packed the bamboo flags signaling where the system is located, grabbed our tools, loaded up the freed tower sections, and drove back to base.
on Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf Accumulation over the 8-month duration. The Chili Cook-Off was at the same time if I remember correctly.The Halloween party is the first major blow-out of the
Field, and Scott Base getting together and having an outdoor concert and hippie happening. If you
If you were not hang out and be mellow, play cards or pool.
summer season was coming.The New Years eve party is held in the Gym, and was the (Left) Number of identified snowfall events for each site. club was renamed in his honor.The Officers Wardroom was located on the second deck of "after hours" parties and where the Herc Crews could get together and debrief it was renamed the Southern Exposure Club. 0000011695 00000 n
It had been a long day in the field, so getting some hot food felt great. The Chief's Mess was located on the first deck of bld Once I can talk to the ADS1258’s and retrieve their data samples on command, the rest of this code will be a piece of cake. 0 I ran back down to Crary and unloaded some more batteries and tower sections with Scott. had retired from the US Navy and was working for ASA as the Housing Officer. talent" would perform, which was pretty cool.The "Chief's Club" is located next to bld 155 Losing sight of Black Island meant that we had about a half hour to 45 minutes to leave.
barbershop chair and opened up Willy Field South in the lounge of their dorm.
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I’ve been focused on getting SPI reception code written for the PCWS datalogger lately. 0000009499 00000 n
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