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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warehouse23" data-source="post: 3129965" data-attributes="member: 27941">Hi All-- Sorry for the hiatus, but life has been very busy in the lead up to the field season. I'm leaving the USA tomorrow for Christchurch, New Zealand, which is the jumping off point for the Ross Ice Sheet (McMurdo Station) side of Antarctica. With some luck, all the flights will connect and all of the equipment we are bringing will arrive intact. The first stop is the US Antarctic Program (USAP) Antarctic Center, where the team will pick up our extreme cold weather gear (ECWs). Deconstructed, the full cold weather uniform looks like this:<a href="http://www.sethwhite.org/images/trips/trip%20to%20antarctica/extreme%20cold%20weather%20gear.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.sethwhite.org/images/trips/trip to antarctica/extreme cold weather gear.jpg</a>All the gear lives in a giant warehouse, with hangar-like dressing rooms:<a href="http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Feb02/cdcjackets.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Feb02/cdcjackets.jpg</a>After trying on each glove, each sock, each hat, etc. we'll wait for our flight down to the ice--with some luck aboard a snazzy new USAF Reserve (New York's finest) C-5 Galaxy:<a href="http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/c5/images/C-5Galaxy_3.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/c5/images/C-5Galaxy_3.jpg</a>If the flight does not get canned mid-way through due to bad weather at McMurdo, I'll be down to the ice about 4-6 hours after leaving. You can follow weather in "Mac Town" here:<a href="http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/89664.html" target="_blank">http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/89664.html</a>I'll post again from McMurdo. Joe</blockquote>

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