Monthly Archives: January 2002

Back from vacation

Heya all,Well, I’m back from sunny McMurdo, and back to freezing my tail off down here.  McMurdo was awesome.  The weather was in the high 30s to the mid 40s.  That’s above zero!  The polies were wandering around wearing jeans and t-shirts while the McMurdo natives were still bundled up in their parkas.  Those guys...

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We’ve been invaded by Russians!

Yep, that’s right, last week we were invaded by a group of about 14 Russians.  They arrived here on an old Anataov 3 bi-plane intending to check out the station for about 4 or 5 hours and then head for the Patriot Hills base on the coast near Chile.  It was quite the collection of...

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