I have been good about walking on the treadmill everyday for 45 minutes but the weather was nice enough today that I decided to substitute that with a `power' walk up the glacier. It turns out that I overestimated my conditioning! It was less a power walk and more of a brisk walk interrupted by many stops to regain my breath. Very enjoyable though. I was the only one on the glacier for a while and the weather stayed quiet good.
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| Panoramic shot looking down the glacier towards the station. The flags you see are used to mark off dangerous parts of the glacier that are near the crevasses. |
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| Arthur harbor showing the new island that has appeared after the glacier connecting it to Anvers melted away. The new island has yet to be named. Apparently, one of the station managers who has been coming here for the last 20 years has first dibs on it being named after him! |
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| They keep a couple of snowmobiles on the glacier. This is both to rescue someone who gets trapped on the glacier. as well as (and more importantly), to MediVac somebody from the station. The plan is that the Chileans would fly in from their Antarctica base and land on top of the glacier (yep!). The patient would then be taken by snowmobile to the plane and Medivac'ed. |
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| Met my LMG buddies on top of the glacier. Awesome group of people who helped us with our towing on the LMG. The LMG is docked at the station so these guys are out and about having a good time. |
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| The fog rolls in! Time to head back to the station. |
Here is what the walk down the glacier looks and sounds like.
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