The cold earth sleeps below, above the cold sky shines

This sign has been up for almost two weeks. Nothing else to say really.

Thwaites Glacier Field Camp Conditions:  Temperature 27°F (15°F with windchill).  Mostly cloudy.  Population = 915 We have been holed up at McMurdo recently with no planes flying, largely due to weather--either too warm and sunny with the ice not amenable to planes landing, or too blizzardy with visibility and wind prohibitive. The planes also continue to break.  Shawn, who went out on a medevac over a week ago (with my phone) and Crystal, the flight nurse who went out on Tuesday, are basking in the New Zealand summer while we are sitting in a stalled low-pressure zone.  Despite the snow and high winds, USAP put on #2 in its race series--a 10K--this morning.  I couldn't get myself out the door.   I rationalized that my clothes were not quite right for the task of running on hills of snow-covered ice with the wind blowing at 20 knots into my face.  For some reason, I preferred hunkering down in bed watching a movie while sipping a cup...