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Dog days

Weather in the Miller Range is always full of surprises, and one day we had so much sun and low wind that we had salsa and guac out on the back of my skidoo. We also began to launch into the era of finding amazing meteorites. One day we found on the blue ice an acorn-squash-sized ordinary chondrite, around which we all posed for pictures. This was followed by a giant iron, 20x17x17 cm and about 10 pounds! These are rare for Antarctica, and represent a planetary body that was large enough to differentiate into core, mantle and crust but has since broken up. We took a big group picture around this one. Ice crystals up in the sky made for surreal skies and landscapes and gave us some beautiful sun dogs and halos. Johnny took us up to the pinnacles, where we could see beautiful en echelon cracks in the ice and giant crevasses. We were careful not to drop anyone in, though that would have give us nice scale for the pictures. We dug up some fuel drums from the old north camp and drove to the top of the adjacent mountain, where I could see the location of the 05-06 camp - nostalgia! I started working on my beauty shots near the end, and in one of them you can see camp behind a meteorite.