Category: 100 Days of Darkness
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Another Chapter
Hi Friends! It’s me again. If you didn’t know, I’m back down on the ice for my second winter with the United States Antarctic Program at McMurdo Station. The depths of winter are here (I’m halfway through the season) and I’ve decided to do a little word-smithing for the second half of this winter. It’s…
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Freshies and Mail
The two planes that managed to land this past weekend brought us our first fresh food and mail since the beginning of May. Four months without salad or fruit! Honestly, I didn’t feel that void until it was filled. I’ve been gorging on lettuce, oranges and kiwis. Another truth be told, I was nervous to…
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WinFly Begins
It’s been a typical game of hurry up and wait down here. Everyday I wake up and check on the flight status. The first flight of WinFly was supposed to arrive here at the beginning of last week, but has been cancelled daily for almost two weeks, so until this evening, we were still a…
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Day One Hundred
One hundred days, fifty-one thousand words on here, and guess what I just saw…the sun! Well, kind of. I had my coffee shift first thing, which was still busy despite the potential flight coming in later in the day. After coffee, I went back to my room and read and drank coffee for a bit.…
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Day Ninety-Nine
I posted a couple photos on the socials earlier this week. Snaps of my new dorm building and the view from my new back door. In the caption I also noted that I only had two more sleeps until my first sunrise since May. After I made the post it came to mind that the…
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Day Ninety-Eight
Yesterday marked a month of being sober. After six years of sobriety, I decided to test the waters over mid-winter and see if, perhaps, I could drink like a normal person. After three weeks of dabbling on and off, I came to the not so surprising conclusion that I am still very much unable to…
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Day Ninety-Seven
I woke up today to an email from Snacks. For those that don’t know who that is, he was my hiking partner on the Appalachian Trail and we became the best of friends. We’ve kept in touch since we parted ways at the end of the hike in December 2021. After the hike he went…
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Day Ninety-Six
It was around -40F with the wind chill bringing it to -54F today. This is a tad warmer than it has been and in turn allowed for activities at Phoenix (the ice runway) to resume today. Those activities revolve around getting the runway prepped. The flight that was due last weekend will attempt to make…
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Day Ninety-Five
The frigid temps continue. This morning it was -47F with the wind chill coming in over -70F. Still sooo cold. With inventory and the move to the new dorm last week, I broke my workout routine streak and jumped back into that today. I am so all or nothing. Yesterday in my restlessness, I knew…
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Day Ninety-Four
It’s Sunday and I have the day off. I think I may have only had one other Sunday off the entire time I have been down here and that was back in the summer season. For most of the rest of the station, this is their normal day off though. I woke up and got…
The Whole Wide World 