Return to McMurdo

On Tues., Jan. 22nd, the weather and logistics aligned for an LC-130 to pick up all 14 science personnel at WAIS Divide (PoleNet, MELT, AWS, and TIME). We had quite a bit of personal luggage and cargo between all of us. Some of the scientists had spent 6 weeks or more at WAIS Divide. After 4 days with no flights at WAIS, we were all pretty excited to be catching a flight and moving on to the next stage of winding down our field seasons.

The flight landed in McMurdo at ~1AM, and the TIME team immediately headed to the PASSCAL offices to get the first set of nodes offloading data and recharging on the racks. Then we headed to bed.

Personal luggage and do not freeze (DNF) cargo getting palletized to fly with us back to McMurdo.

WAIS staff loading pallets on the LC-130.

Science teams waiting to fly back to McMurdo.