Setting up our field base

The weather was very windy with blowing snow on Jan. 4th, so we spent the morning continuing to organize our field gear, waiting for the visibility to improve somewhat. We loaded our gear onto sleds behind three snow machines (2 sleds for each snow machine).

Loading seismic and GPS equipment and a variety of tools onto sleds behind our snow machines.

Loading our snow machines to ferry equipment 5 km from WAIS Divide camp to our field base.

We took a lot of our science equipment out to our field base Arctic Oven tent and staged it inside. Then we returned to camp to charge batteries and prepare for GPS surveying the next day. Gusts were blowing at 25 knots and the wind chill was -35 C in the afternoon. I didn't take any pictures in the afternoon because I didn't want to take my hands out of my gloves to use my camera.

This photo of our field base was taken after the weather improved on Jan. 5th.