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Saturday, November 5, 2016

Day and Night

 The big house just before lunch time. Having a few hours of daylight each day has been nice to get outside work done, but that luxury is fading fast. We have only 4 hours of official day light left and are losing about 20 minutes a day (we will lose more the closer we get to the last sunset).
 We have one week until the last sunrise and sunset!! Hopefully we get a few more clear days to see the sun a few more times like this before it leaves us.
 This is TAWO, the Temporary Atmospheric & Weather Observatory (I think that's what that stands for, it was only supposed to be temporary but it's now been in use for a number of years, at least five I think)
 This is the Big House front door, with the Summit Station sign.
This is the entrance to the freezer trench, where all the frozen goods are to get us through the winter.
 Inside the freezer trench.
 There was a huge aurora show covering most of the sky a couple nights ago. There was so much going on in the sky it was difficult to figure out which direction to look!
 The snow drift around the greenhouse is almost level with the roof now.
 Super cool spiral!!!
 Climbing the TAWO meteorological tower. Really tough work.
 This is on the walk out to TAWO. It's about 700 meters away from the main station area. A good 15-20 minute walk with all my ECW on.