Sabrina and Lettau

On Monday Shelley and I flew out on the Twin Otter to the Sabrina and Lettau sites. The flight out to Sabrina is a beautiful one. We had to stop at the Moody Glacier fuel cache to refuel during the 4.5 hour flight. The cache is in the mountains and there are wonderful views of the mountains and glaciers along the way. This made Monday my favorite day on the ice. I just kept thinking that people would pay thousands of dollars to be on a flight like this.

Here is a picture of the fuel cache. It is literally a pile of 50 gallon barrels of fuel.

The Sabrina site was a new installation and it was satisfying doing the work to get an AWS built out in the field. The new site is named for John and Liz's daughter who will be born in March. Since no one had been to the area before, we had a mountaineer with in case the area contained crevasses. Luckly for us, the area was clear and solid. Each season a Traverse of people, cargo, goods and supplies travels over land from McMurdo to the South Pole. It was amazing, because from the plane we could still see the scar in the ice where they had traveled through the area back in December. Unfortuantely, I do not have any pictures of the site. I will need to get copies from Shelley before I leave McMurdo.

At Lettau, Shelley and I just rebooted the electronics box. For some reason it had clicked off the air. After the reboot, it worked just fine.

Since this was my favorite day, I have splurged and uploaded quite a few pictures below. I hope that you enjoy.