We got real snow over the weekend, not just the blown in ice crystals, everything was very still and cloudy (it was just a light dusting though). There was a new snow drift today that was shaped like a wave so naturally I surfed it. I'm wearing "little red". It's not a big goose down jacket like big red, but it's nice with a hoodie on warm sunny days. It was -35 F today, the sun really makes all the difference.
Went skiing again today out past SuperDARN. It is really incredible to look at such expanse of sky and ice, especially on quiet days when there is absolutely nothing to hear.
I have been trying to capture the blue color that the ice gets in it's gaps and shadows and I finally got one that sort of gives it justice. The red is the reflection of my jacket in the ice.
A few scientist had to dig one of their experiments out so that it could be taken out into the field and left this huge trench which was fun to walk around in and check out.
Ice wall they built out of the ice blocks taken out of the trench. Trenches are dug with a shovel and with a saw, it's easier to make a small hole, cut the ice into big pieces and knock the blocks into the hole with the shovel to widen and lengthen the trench.
I didn't help shovel or saw but I did help enjoy the trenches afterwards, in the picture above I'm pretending I'm in a hot tub because it was a nice hot tub sized hole. The scientists estimate they moved about 1100 lbs of ice in the past two weeks, all by hand, outside in the cold all day long.
I crossed a huge track vehicle crevasse without falling in! The more I try cross county skiing the more impressed I am with early expeditions in Antarctica.
Santa made a surprise appearance on a snow mobile today.
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