Living Situation

This is my bedroom. Jamesway 4 Room 6. Looks cozy, I know. It's a mere 6' x 8' in floor space.










This is Jamesway 4 from the outside. It is Antarctica.

Why not wear orange is the real question here....











This is down in the LO arch. This is where medical and other facilites were located before they built the new station. Now there is some remodeling going on. Those two snow hills came in through a hole in the arch over the winter.






They said it would be cold.

To the left: The South Pole International PAX Terminal. I don't know that we actually fly international without a stop in McMurdo. But anyways it's really the fuels office. It is a "solar shack". On the outside of the plywood is all painted black to "warm" us up. It helps, but the space heaters do the job!





This is my fellow fuelie pulling the aviation hose away from the LC-130. Look close and you can tell that the props never stop running during this operation. Naturally it's because of the cold, they don't shut the engines down.






That's me, walking from under the plane. Best part of the job!













This is the fuelie crew at the geographical South Pole of the whole world! You can see some black dots under the sign, that is the cermonial South Pole. The station looks so good after the siding has been put on, that darn siding crew was good last year! But for this year, fuels rules!

Tunnels

Well it's been awhile! Here are a couple of photos from the ice tunnels under the South Pole. Ponder that one for a minute. They are all man-made tunnels for water/sewage pipelines. If you will notice the thermometer is a brisk -65 degrees. Amazingly enough that is not the coldest I have experienced this year. When we got off the plane at the South Pole on Oct. 27, second flight in, the tempature was -68 with a wind chill of -93. Remember, I have an outside job! :)