Antarctica

View up the Taylor Valley from

Fryxell Camp

Lake Fryxell Camp, Dry Valleys

Canada Glacier, Taylor Valley

Pressure ridges and melt pool

Pressure ridges where the ice shelf wraps

around Ross Island

Leopard seal in Taylor Valley (this

is MILES from the ocean - crazy)

It was a fairly uneventful season for me in Antarctica.  This is not to say that just being there isn't awesome, I just didn't go as many interesting places as I have in past years.  Unfortunately, one of the most interesting places I went was so cold that I didn't take any pictures (dummy!).  This was a trip to Mill Glacier, which is in the Transantarctic Mountains.  A group of 5 of us were dropped off there by Basler with tents and wished of good luck.  We spent a week camped there, which is possibly the coldest I've ever been.  The ambient temperature was -20 during the day and the wind was blowing at a steady 30 knots until a storm with 40 knots blew in.  Seriously, it was COLD!

Weddell Seal

And a baby Weddell

A pressure ridge tour group

Other adventures included some trips to the Dry Valleys and a lot of fun in town with a great group of friends that I miss terribly now that I am no longer there.

Erebus Glacier ice tongue

Fuelie salute for the retiring Delta.

This guy visited our

backdoor regularly

Spring, my partner in crime for the season

Serina, me, Devin, Spring and Kate

at Icestock

5-mile ice berg - grounded in

McMurdo sound (the walls are
~100ft high!)

A fuelie funeral procession for the delta.

Some days our transport is killer!

Monitoring a well with diesel

in the dry valleys

Women's March at McMurdo

Our ride - a C-17

In the van on the way redeploy to NZ.

Harms, Devin and Kate on the way to

the airfield.

A bunch of the fuelies

The map showing our flight path back to NZ,

complete with a paper plane tracking our progress...