| Safety 3rd, the BLAST motto. |
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| (9448x1352, 8312.19 kb) The horizon for Willy Field from East to North annotated with prominent landmarks, and directions. The directions are approximate and may be off by a point or so. | |
| The LDB Camp Office now has the welcome sign posted outside. |
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| (11376x1232, 8718.94 kb) The horizon looking the other way: from West to South, again annotated as above. | |
| Our highbay now sports a porch. Before they pushed it up, they told us there would be a big gap between it and the building and that the deck would be at a different level than the floor inside. Neither of these ended up being true, which we're very happy for. |
| Mark and Nick do another nitrogen transfer while, in the background Marie plumbs the inner frame balance system. |
| One of the solar array panels, ready for testing. |
| An old munitions box serves as a convenient place to bundle up some cables. |
| Mark checks the ferrings (aluminum wedges) which we're planning to put on the secondary support struts. |
| Chris cables up the secondary actuators. |
| Gaelen and Nick check solar panels outside. |
| Hauling BLAST outside. This is by far the easiest (and coldest) time we've had of it: the hoist goes all the way out. |
| BLAST out on the porch. |
| BLAST out on the porch. |
| BLAST out on the porch. |
| BLAST out on the porch. |
| Sun reflecting off the secondary mirror. |
| With the gondola out of the way, suddenly we have a lot more space inside. |
| Chris and Marco, both working with SolidWorks, a CAD tool. |
| The last solar panel finished. |
| The welders get instruction on how to put the chin back together. |
| At the outdoor recreation seminar. |
| A helicopter hovers over McMurdo. |
| A schematic of the view from Hut Point. |
| An inscription on one of the stiles in town. Starting from the bottom: "Across a room today two strangers speak each other's tongue." |
| Enzo and Marco challenge each other at foosball. Competition can be fierce. |
| Danger: Confined Space; Do not Enter. It never would have occurred to me to enter had I not seen the sign. Now it seems like it might be an interesting thing to do. Matt figures a better warning sign would have been "Danger: Diesel Fuel." |
| Leaving McMurdo for Willy Field. |
| Our helium tankers below Ob Hill. |
| Cresting the hill above Scott Base in Ivan. |
| Looking over Scott Base towards AnDRILL, on the ice shelf. The black dot at centre among the pressure ridges is a seal. |
| A Delta on the road below us. |
| The Delta. |
| The Royal Society Range. |
| The Pig Barn. The small black flags visible among the power poles to the left mark the spot of the other buildings of the old LDB camp, now buried under snow. |
| The survival cache in our highbay. Contents: 15 sleeping bags, 7 cots, 8 pads, 60 dehydrated meals, 64 oatmeal packets. There's also a cache of flags on bamboo poles. |
| Do Not Freeze, a.k.a Don't dress up the penguins in little tuxedos. |