We're on the flight schedule for tomorrow, Monday, December 8th! We're scheduled for transport to the airfield at 8:00 AM. Where exactly are we going? We're traveling north from McMurdo Station to Tucker Glacier.
Our camp at Tucker Glacier is about 370 miles north of McMurdo Station. Our field mountaineer, Chris Simmons, flew there on a cargo flight last week; the flight from McMurdo to Tucker Glacier Camp was about two hours long. The plane then stopped to refuel at Mario Zucchelli Station, an Italian research station, on the way back to McMurdo. |
| Tucker Glacier Landing Site. Photo by Chris Simmons! |
By Saturday, Twin Otters had transported nearly all of our cargo to Tucker Glacier. As you've read about in past posts, we've spent much of the last week collecting our cargo and preparing it for flight!
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| Forklifts then transported our cargo to the airfield so it could be loaded on the planes! |
Tomorrow, we'll fly with a little bit of cargo, and our carry-on luggage. We will stay at Tucker Glacier camp until the first week of January, when we'll fly to Mario Zucchelli Station. Brent will continue on to McMurdo so he can head home to teach his class! The rest of us, Greg, Chris, Isaac, and I will stay at Mario Zucchelli Station for a week, traveling via helicopter to glaciers close to the station.
We'll return to McMurdo the week of January 12th, and we're scheduled to return to Christchurch by January 20th!
I've scheduled some posts that will be published while we're gone, to fill you in on more of our field activities. We'll let you know when we return from Tucker Glacier - we hope we can contact you from Mario Zucchelli station!
Thanks for following our blog! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
Claire
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