{"id":4179,"date":"2010-12-07T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alan3411"},"modified":"2011-12-03T18:26:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T00:26:44","slug":"another-day-in-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/07\/another-day-in-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Day in Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well the big wind event came and went but did not have the immediate impact that we had hoped. Today, search<\/a> Tuesday December 7, is somewhat clear but the winds are still blowing on Vinson’s summit plus at High Camp.<\/p>\n

We can hear the low roar of the winds ripping through the high ridges. Some reports have it at 50 mph. A large lenticular cloud spans the ridge we can see from low camp. But,the weather forecast, which has been very accurate thus far, calls for low winds the next three days -enough for us to make a summit run. We are spending our time in a Groundhog Day movie set. We wait until noon to leave the tents since the sun (what there is of it) comes out from behind the nearby ridge.<\/p>\n

Next is ‘breakfast’, usually oatmeal, bacon and bagel sandwiches. By then it is between 2 and 3. The afternoons go by quickly. One day we built snow walls, another we took a short walk for exercise, today we did some review of crevasse rescue techniques. \"Alan<\/a>I write a dispatch on occasion using a foldable keyboard and PDA (think a 1995 pocket computer) and upload to the website via my sat phone at 1995 dialup speeds – no,slower!<\/p>\n

Back to the tents for a short nap or read before reconvening in the pyramid shaped cook\/dining tent – complete with snow benches – to hear the 9:30 PM weather report. This comes from Vinson Base Camp which is relayed from Union Glacier. All the teams listen in and contribute their own observations and plans. A dinner of pasta or a burrito wraps up the day. Some more small talk, reading or cards takes us towards midnight.<\/p>\n

It is still light outside when we crawl into our -20F sleeping bags neatly lied out on thin mats inside our 2 or 3 person tents. Hard to believe we are sitting on top of several thousand feet of Antarctic ice. We are on day 6 of the waiting game and hopeful that day 7 will take us to High Camp and then the top of Antarctica!<\/p>\n

Climb On!<\/p>\n

Alan<\/p>\n

Memories are Everything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well the big wind event came and went but did not have the immediate impact that we had hoped.<\/p>\n

Today, Tuesday December 7, is somewhat clear but the winds are still blowing on Vinson’s summit plus at High Camp. We can hear the low roar of the winds rip…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[11,115],"tags":[438,441],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-summit","category-vinson-2010","tag-7-summits","tag-vinson-2010"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0309.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}