![Click to enlarge](img/th_5239.jpg) | The various different waste containers in the high bay. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5240.jpg) | Mark shows off his cigars. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5241.jpg) | Cryostat optics alignment. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5242.jpg) | Cryostat optics alignment. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5243.jpg) | Chris checks out the pumps (orange) with a flashlight. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5244.jpg) | The empty pressure vessel on the bench for reassembly. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5245.jpg) | More alignment. The red dot inside the optics box comes from a laser. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5246.jpg) | Mt. Erebus. It's much farther away and bigger than it looks. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5247.jpg) | The long drop. It's about 30 meters from the highbay. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5248.jpg) | Padron Cigars. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5249.jpg) | Marco, Matt and Gaelen in the highbay. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5250.jpg) | Marco walks back from lunch. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5251.jpg) | The long drop with flag deployed. When you're inside, you're supposed to stick the flag outside to indicate to other people that it's in use. This saves people from trekking all the way over to it, only to discover that the door is locked. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5252.jpg) | A black flag means "Danger, don't go here." Two black flags crossed like this mean "No, really, we mean it." |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5253.jpg) | The pig barn, the previous integration facilities. Operations got tired of digging it out of the snow every year, so the new buildings are on skids, and the building are just hauled up onto the snow at the start of the season. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5254.jpg) | Looking back at the LDB facilities. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5255.jpg) | Refueling the galley. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5256.jpg) | Bringing in nitrogen. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5257.jpg) | Bringing in nitrogen. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5258.jpg) | Matt tries to figure out how to do his absentee ballot. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5259.jpg) | The last dregs of the Jolly Ranchers from Palestine. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5260.jpg) | Ivan the Terra Bus arrives at Willy Field. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5261.jpg) | Marco lock-tights jack screws on the ACS. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5262.jpg) | Enzo on the phone. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5263.jpg) | Matt checks on the bolometers, to see if they're still working after shipping. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5264.jpg) | Nick hangs the pivot. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5265.jpg) | Mt. Erebus. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5266.jpg) | On the way back to base. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5267.jpg) | One of the few street signs on the continent, outside Scott base. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5268.jpg) | White dome, which overlooks McMurdo. Behind is brown dome. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5269.jpg) | Mark demonstrates proper ice cream cone manufacture. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5270.jpg) | A heated game of foosball. |
![Click toplay](img/th_5271.jpg) | Gaelen tries some sculling. Note the 8 bit graphics on the screen. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5272.jpg) | The trash matrix. Trash is sorted into very fine categories. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5273.jpg) | The best things to do on the bus to work: read or sleep. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5274.jpg) | The pressure ridges. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5275.jpg) | The hairpin turn outside Scott Base. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5276.jpg) | Some of the LDB guys check out our new snow mobiles before taking them to Willy Field. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_5277.jpg) | Getting into work. |