We spent 33 days and 32 nights in the field. We haven't traded photos amongst ourselves yet, so here's my favorite 10 images - from my camera - of that time:
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Farewell flyby - the smoke-cloud was created with ATO rockets,
used to help the aircraft reach take-off speed sooner, and minimize
the chance of damage from the hard sastrugi. |
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Matt, Seth and Kat get the first view of the Thomas Hills
terrain descending to the Foundation Ice Stream. |
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| Seth gets excited for Christmas. |
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Claire and Kat on the summit of Martin Peak - we were the
second ascent in almost 50 years. |
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| Collecting samples in the South Mainland. |
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A Twin Otter aircraft took Kat, Seth and I back to the central
Pensacola Mountains for an 80km traverse of last year's sites. |
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| Kat measuring a core snow sample before bagging. |
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Ice bow on a low cloud day. Our return to Thomas Hills was
delayed by five days by poor weather. |
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Our very small, very remote, very deep field camp in the
Schmidt Hills. We were 165km away from Greg, Claire and Matt. |
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| Near the summit of South Island Peak, Thomas Hills. |
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My last view of the Thomas Hills, Patuxent Range, Pensacola
Mountains. A moment later I turned around, picked up my
bags, and stepped on board the C-130 to head home. |
