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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warehouse23" data-source="post: 3149687" data-attributes="member: 27941">Howdy All!Tomorrow at 0800 local, I'm off to the field for the season! All our gear has been staged down to Helo Ops (all 5,000 lbs or so of it), and is ready to load into the waiting helo fleet. I'm anxious, and exciting, and tired (it's been a long week preparing the gear), and a little over-whelmed--kind of like the feeling you get just before going home after a long absence. Going back to Beacon Valley feels like going home to me--to a valley I have come to know and love (I even have pictures of it on my office wall back at Brown--it's like a member of the family). Sure, there'll be stress, and lots of work, and worry, but in the end, I know that I've been waiting over a year to get back and tomorrow I'm finally going. Have a wonderful holiday season, everyone! Be well, be hale, be healthy, be happy! I'll post again when I'm back on station. cheers,"Java" Joe (My Antarctic field nick-name)/WH23</blockquote>