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Waiting to go to camp

Hello all. I am waiting. Waiting for my clothes to dry. Waiting for the last minute plans to gel. Waiting to go to Beardmore camp. The last will take place on Friday around 09:30 (around 3:30 Thursday morning EST). We will pile onto a C-130 cargo plane for the 500 mile flight to Beardmore Glacier camp. We may be the only party there at the time. The camp is manned by a husband and wife who will do cooking - for themselves. We will have to do our own cooking and the like. We are scheduled to do a recon flight to the Alfie's Elbow locality on the following day (Saturday to us). If that goes well (we find the spot we want to collect), then we will put in a camp there at about 8,900 ft. We will be there for 4-5 days, then drop back to Beardmore camp at about 6,000ft.

Tomorrow (Thursday for us) we may go see Emporer penguins at a research site called the Penguin Ranch. There they have a plastic tube that sticks down into the water below the ice where you can watch the peguins go swimming/flying past. If we can get in, it should be fantastic to watch.

So, off to the laundry room, then up to the room to help Dave put the crampons on our boots. I think we will need them soon. Posted by chuck at November 19, 2003 02:06 AM | TrackBack