| Colin and Grant work on the waveplate. |
| As I've said: most visited web page. |
| Jamie removes K2's Helium fridges. |
| Heat strapping. |
| The AST/RO hut has been replaced by a shed. Also, the IceCube flag has been re-erected. |
| Herc on deck. |
| Walking out to Peligroso to bid Walt farewell. |
| This is an attempt to demonstrate how loud LC-130s are. |
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(12325x2149, 3645.44 kb) Arrivals and departures at the flight terminal (aka Peligroso).
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| Walt shows off his SPT shirt. |
| Waiting for departure. |
| IceCube group shot. About 30 IceCubers left, putting a big dent in Station population. |
| IceCube group shot. |
| Lunch! |
| The snow barrier they built in front of Destination Alpha over the past few days is almost gone. Where does it go? I don't know, but I suggested they retro it all to McMurdo, which could use more snow. |
| Getting a ride to MAPO on the shuttle. |
| Another shot of the remnants of AST/RO. |
| The tourist camp in the distance. |
| The DASI mount (containing Keck). |
| Helium fridge bracket. |
| K2s helium fridges. There is one helium-4 fridges (left) and two helium-3 fridge (centre and right). |
| The stripped cold plate. |
| The most dangerous game: Colin solders near the cryostat. |
| Jamie re-assembles K2's helium fridges. |
| Jon inspects the half wave plate |
| Colin and Grant work on the half wave plate warm electronics. |
| Carbon fibre standoffs. These one's hold the focal plane. |
| Old-school LeCroy analog electronics. In case you care, from left: two dual gate generators, a fan-in/fan-out, a coincidence unit, a level translator and, finally, two quad discriminators (one of which is upside-down). |
| Closing up K1. |
| Closing up K1. |
| K2's cold stage re-assembled. |
| Sarah and Colin cable K1 for close-out. |
| Sarah and Colin cable K1 for close-out. |
| Justus tests the new chopper he made. |
| Heat strap installed. |
| Colin with the feedthrough plate, the final piece of the K1 cryostat. |
| Final close-out. |
| K1 closed, finally. |
| Snow shoving continues. |