Old Antarctic Explorer
The memory is hazy (I assume because I’d been drinking), but I think it is nonetheless reliable enough. I was in northwestern Montana, at...
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Ken
- Oct 7, 2020
- 6 min
First Flight
No one on the lower tiers of the McMurdo hierarchy could understand why the NSF was so wet to get this flight off the ground. The usual...
Ken
- Oct 1, 2020
- 7 min
Going Green
The winfly transition from level yellow to level green was a calmer affair than pretty much anyone predicted. “The moment these people...
Ken
- Sep 27, 2020
- 4 min
Antarctica Will Fucking Kill You
The three types of weather in McMurdo are classified roughly like this: Condition 1: Bad Weather Condition 2: Marginal Weather Condition...
Ken
- Sep 19, 2020
- 4 min
Managing in Isolation, part 3
Our latest departure date just happened also to be our friend Fraser’s birthday, and as it became clearer and clearer that this was yet...
Ken
- Sep 16, 2020
- 6 min
Managing in Isolation, part 2
The process we entered into in New Zealand was referred to by the kiwis as “managed isolation,” to distinguish it from “quarantine,”...
Ken
- Sep 12, 2020
- 7 min
Managing in Isolation, part 1
The general consensus among the contractors was that the forth covid test was probably unnecessary. The first one, yes, absolutely: we...
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