Hunter Lamer

It's been a little over a week since I arrived back down on the ice. So far it's been a great time mixed in with lots of weather. Extended cold & high winds to be exact. Been many days in a row of -70°F temps, which means lots of office work rather than in the field. Thankfully we still have a few more weeks of sunrises & sunsets before the constant summer sun sets in.

Here are some photos from the beginning of this adventure. I am going to try & post more updates & photos this time around. However, with that said, I am back in the land of limited wifi & non-existent cell reception. So I apologize in advance if I am hard to reach for the foreseeable future, but I'll do my best! I sent a ton of postcards last go around but if you'd like one, let me know! I suppose to save anyone the effort, we aren't really receiving mail this year due to budget cuts. However, we still can get letter/flat mail if you feel so inclined!

#antarctica

Getting our sack lunches for the flight while loading the C-17 in Christchurch, New Zealand

View of Antarctica from the cockpit

Just landed on the compacted snow runway at Phoenix Field at sunset

Our transportation back to town. Old Delta passenger carriers from the Navy days back in the 70's (I think). Very slow. Took us over an hour to arrive to station.

Loading into the Delta

Greeted by the rare and beautiful nacreous clouds!

Waiting in line to check in for our flight day in Christchurch

Check out the temp of the PB before we fired it up...-34°C (-29°F)

It's a tad shitty out

Bunch of cargo in the C-17 with us

More beautiful clouds on arrival day

Towing the first of our modules off of a berm

Gusts of 72 Knots (83 mph) 🌬️💨

Thanks for the photo Joe

Nice

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