Picture Gallery for Mon 2011-01-24 01:38:07 UTC

	Decanting liquid nitrogen.
	K1 with a cold hat (note the frost build-up).
	Chris sawsalls the cryostat mount.
	Getting ready to raise the near-field beam mapper.
	Going up.
	Going up.
	Jamie secures the lift.
	Making adjustments.
	Beam mapper and cryostat in place.
	The near-field beam mapper ready for action.
	Chris under K2.
	Snow grooming.
	Snow grooming.
	Wall-E outside the vehicle shed.
	Summer camp.
	Slump.
(23893x2233, 7367.68 kb) A 360° panorama taken from Grid South of the Elevated Station. Most of what you see are storage berms, but we also have, starting from left: Spoolhenge, the left-over spools used to ship the the IceCube strands, stacked up. If you were paying attention during my last trip down here, you've already seen one of these. They're not small. The two blue, semi-circular ski huts towards which Jamie and Sarah are walking. They're named Fred and Wilma. Directly south is the high-frequency antenna field, and then, partially obscured by a berm, the RADOME (radar dome). The Elevated Station, at right, with the Jamesways of Summer Camp in front of it.
	The ski huts.
	Ski hut. It's a disused dorm.
	The view from the back door of the hut.
	RADOME.
	The centre of summer camp.
	The Station from summer camp.
	Cryogenics facility.
	Heading back to the Elevated Station.
	Cryogenics facility.
(13515x2403, 4646.91 kb) The two Stations: At left is the Elevated Station where I live, eat and sometimes work. The cylindrical metal structure on the right end of the station is the Beer Can. It connects the Elevated Station to the Underground Station. The two quanset-like buildings you see in the centre, mostly burried by snow are the entrances to the Underground Station, which are the left-over parts of 2nd Pole (the "old" station which more people are familiar with: the one that used to have the geodesic dome). They weren't originally underground, but have been buried by accumulation since they were first constructed. These are mostly utility structures and house things like fuel storage, the power plant, the vehicle shop, &c. At right, past the row of snowmobiles, is the cryo facility, one of the few outbuilings which remains in use over winter. It's used to store gasses and liquid cryogens (like liquid helium) for use by scientists.
	Getting ready for James Brown Bingo.
	Bingo.
	William Wallace, aka James Brown (our head chef), hosts bingo.
	Practicing for Sastrugi cycling.
	Jamie make a go for it. The green flag marks the starting line. The poles mark participants' best efforts. As you can see, cycling on Sastrugi is tricky.
	Dismount.
	Another attempt. Basically, as soon as you get off the groomed snow, you stop.
	Pole flag.
	Chin-Lin competes in the sled pull.
	Chin-Lin competes in the sled pull.
	Sled pull. Cricket finishes a stage.
	The sled loaded up with fifteen batteries (about 975 pounds / 440 kg).
	Phil gets ready for a go.
	Phil pulls fifteen batteries plus Chin-Lin.
	Phil pulls fifteen batteries plus Chin-Lin.
	The ECW gear donning event.
	The ECW gear donning event.
	The ECW gear donning event.
	Winners of the triathlon - men's category.
	Winners of the triathlon - women's category.
	Winners of the race up the beer can stairs - men's category.
	Beer can race special prize for running up the stairs in full firefighter gear.
	Winners of the race up the beer can stairs - women's category.
	Winners of the sastrugi cycling event.
	Winners of the sled pull event, men's category.
	Winners of the sled pull event, women's category.
	Winners of the ECW gear donning event.
	The Keck medal winners: Chin-Lin: bronze women's sled pull Phil: gold, men's sled pull Jamie: gold, men's beer can stair race; gold, sastrugi cycling; silver, men's triathlon Sarah: gold, women's triathlon. (Jamie isn't checking to make sure his medal is real gold: the medals are made out of cookies.)
	Heading out to MAPO on a foggy day.