Aloft to the Convoy

We didn't find what we were looking for, but at least we burned plenty of Jet Fuel. We probably spent six hours in the back of a Bell 212 helicopter yesterday.

An airborne view of McMurdo Sound from the Dry Valleys. Six hours is a long time to stair out of a helicopter window and ponder one's existance...

The Mackay Glacier is on the way to Convoy.

We landed at Carapace Nunatak. The temperature was -5°F, with a brisk breeze. We found only Ferrar Dolorite in the moraines and had to move on. We only had time and fuel to investigate Elephant Moraine and Reckling Nunatak by air - with low, slow passes.

 With a fuel gauge nearing E, 100 miles from no-where, we were pleased to find a half-dozen full fuel drums sitting on the Odell Glacier.

Marble Point - a great place to work if you are a fuelie. The cook-to-worker ratio is 3:1.