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... Department to get the Boondoggle (aka usually fun working trip) of the year....to go help out the Supply Department at the South Pole Station. Most of the time (unless you actually work at the Pole), McMurdo-ites only get to go for day trips--as in, get ...
... today and I felt like accomplishing something trivial. Normally everyone works hard for long hours, but for whatever reason the station was running at half-speed. I don't know really why, but we like to blame the fickle barometric altitude, ...
... our belongings palletized in cargo nets in the back of the large cargo hold in which we sit. 11/9 I'm at the South Pole. It's a little past midnight, and my thick curtain can barely block the intense sunlight through the window of my ...
Today I guided in a plane. It was pretty slow at the heavy VMF--vehicle maintenance facility--so one of the fuelies dropped by and asked if I wanted to do something fun. Before I knew it, I was out on the "flight deck" (a large area of ice ...
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There go the Poles!
Posted on Apr 25, 2009, 01:43:18
... weather training and traveling soon, and develop the skills to hike the pass all the way to the U.S. Scott-Amundsen South Pole Station. I know it takes a long time to develop the ability to handle temperatures in excess of -120F...and the coldest I've ...
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