So far we have a green light weather wise to take off for the field today. I will be spending a night with Margarita at Pearse Valley, it will be a two person camp, and I am looking forward to the physical and mental test of it! We were supposed to leave 2 days ago, but got dumped with 40 cm of snow here in McMurdo ( great oppourtunity to get some garbage bag/cardboard box sledding in!). What this means though is that Pearse may have a layer of snow on its valley floor which may make sampling and making measurements a bit difficult. No point in speculating though, instead its time to get to the field!
From Pearse we will be heading straight to University Valley, where we will join 3 members of our team (Wayne Pollard, Alfonso Davila, and Denis Lacelle). We should be there about 2 weeks if all goes well.
Hopefully you won't hear from me for the next two and a half weeks!
Heres a photo of some seals taken from the helicopter to tide you over.
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