Lake Bonney and the Taylor Valley

Sea ice on the way from McMurdo to the Taylor
Valley (the schmeg is from the helicopter window)

Mountains at the head of the Taylor Valley

Glacier in the Taylor Valley

Melt ponds in the sea ice

My first trip to the Dry Valleys!  We went out to a place called Lake Bonney to do some remediation of contaminated snow and some sampling.  It was gorgeous and the snow was clean.  Yay!

Ferrar Glacier

Taylor Glacier camp

Lake Hoare camp (sorry about the
crappy "out the window" pic)

At Lake Bonney camp

I am actually doing some work too - this
is me collecting samples after digging up
contaminated snow from a chemical spill

Another crazy glacier