Boomeranged

Well, the first try to AGAP was boomeranged. This means that after we sat on the plane for 2.5 hours we were told we were headed back home. Well we first continued the 30 min to AGAP to buzz the two tents already set up. We were boomeranged because the weather at the Pole was bad. Pole weather needs to be good because as I mentioned before after we set up our tent for an hour and then try to take off, we will need to fly to the pole to get fuel to come back to McMurdo. Thus if weather at Pole is bad enough that we can't land, we don't have enough fuel to make it back home and everyone has a bad day.

While on the flight we had plenty of time to have fun. I took a few hour nap on a bunch of cargo before trying to fly a broom around.

Ben pretended to drive this snow machine around. Ben and his wife Gretchen life just down the road from a former girlfriend of mine in Anchorage plus Gretchen knows my good friend Shawna Compton (what a small world).

On the way back I watched out the window to see the Trans Antarctic Mountains. I have to say it was amazing. I happened to get a shot of Mount Discovery which meant we were almost back home.

When we transitioned from the Ice Shelf to Ross Island, the road was blocked by two ambulances. I guess an ANG (Air National Guard) guy was having some health issues. They were transferring him from one ambulance to the other (one was from one of the air fields while the other was from town). After they took off we caught the ambulance on the way back to town when the transmission died going up the hill by Scott Base. They asked if we could tow them back with our Delta. Since this seemed like a bad idea and we already had one hurt guy, we radioed it in and continued on. Well, another day at the office and we were back home. We'll try again when the weather clears.