Farewell civilization
10/25/04
8:02 pm
So this will be the last post for a while. I don’t know how long it will be. The one thing that I know for sure is that I will be out of contact until at least mid-December, possibly later. There is a small chance that I will return to McMurdo for a night to upload some data, and if that is the case, you will see a flurry of activity. I will bombard you with blog entries, emails and phone calls, even if it means I get no sleep. But my only reliable source of communication for the next two months will be the United States Postal Service.
We are headed out on two huey helicopters tomorrow morning at 8:45 for the Olympus Range in the Dry Valleys. We will be there for about two weeks and will then pick up camp and move to Beacon Valley, where we will spend the rest of the field season. No showers, no toilets, no laundry, no beds. Just rocks and ice, a few tents, good company and a bottle of jagermeister.
I love you all and I will be thinking about you out there. I will talk to you again soon.
This is a little map of the Ross Ice Shelf area and the Dry Valleys. I put little dots and numbers for where we're going to be. McMurdo (1), The Olympus Range (2) and Beacon Valley (somewhere near 3).
This is a landsat image of the Dry Valleys area. Click to make big.
My backyard for a month in Beacon Valley. That rock-covered, lobate, flowing kind of glacier-like thing on the right in the foreground is called Mullins Valley. That is my baby. That sweet little collection of rock and ice is why I'm here. I'm going to expose it repeatedly, drill it repeatedly and hit it with a sledgehammer, repeatedly.
8:02 pm
So this will be the last post for a while. I don’t know how long it will be. The one thing that I know for sure is that I will be out of contact until at least mid-December, possibly later. There is a small chance that I will return to McMurdo for a night to upload some data, and if that is the case, you will see a flurry of activity. I will bombard you with blog entries, emails and phone calls, even if it means I get no sleep. But my only reliable source of communication for the next two months will be the United States Postal Service.
We are headed out on two huey helicopters tomorrow morning at 8:45 for the Olympus Range in the Dry Valleys. We will be there for about two weeks and will then pick up camp and move to Beacon Valley, where we will spend the rest of the field season. No showers, no toilets, no laundry, no beds. Just rocks and ice, a few tents, good company and a bottle of jagermeister.
I love you all and I will be thinking about you out there. I will talk to you again soon.
This is a little map of the Ross Ice Shelf area and the Dry Valleys. I put little dots and numbers for where we're going to be. McMurdo (1), The Olympus Range (2) and Beacon Valley (somewhere near 3).
This is a landsat image of the Dry Valleys area. Click to make big.
My backyard for a month in Beacon Valley. That rock-covered, lobate, flowing kind of glacier-like thing on the right in the foreground is called Mullins Valley. That is my baby. That sweet little collection of rock and ice is why I'm here. I'm going to expose it repeatedly, drill it repeatedly and hit it with a sledgehammer, repeatedly.
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