Ice Stock NYE 2006 - Like Woodstock w/o drugs and mud!!

Let's sit on an old Navy truck!!


















Icestock peeps and "head-banger" moves on stage!!

















My club: Ross Island Yacht Club (RIYCA). Chili cook-off at Icestock - we lost.















Monica feeling no pain!!















Icestock main stage(the only stage).

US Coast Guard and the Captain

The captain hitching a ride. Nice hard hat!!!













The captain being run over by the USCG Polar Sea! Not really, I volunteer to tie-up the ships when they come into Ross Island port.















Flag at half-mast on the bow of the Polar Sea(President Ford).


J. Lackey in 1992?? Any ideas anyone??









Sun dog at McMurdo.

Golf in Antarctica??

Crazy but true !! Paul competed in the Antarctica's annual Ice Wharf Golf Tournament on sunday. Closest to the pin wins' Paul came in 3rd place ! great! paul and the corwd are actually standing on sea ice that is covered in gravel to drive on and to the right of him is where our sea vessels dock - unload and load!


Monica and Leeann also from Denver had a much easier time at snow camp survival school then Paul.. we had fairly mild weather 20 degrees, light to med. wind and sunny most of the time... here we are sitting in the ice lounge outside our snow cave/ igloo with circular couch (like the counseling couch in Gunny- BASC style!) with a big screen tv (behind us) showing rugby - of course and a little table for cards and keeping your drinks cold.
Monica hauling gear at t snow camp - ice block walls protect our tents & makeshift kitchen . Our snow cave to the right.

2 emperor penguins hanging out on our remote airfield runway for small planes... so cute!

Penguins!

Adelie Penguins came across the sea ice & visited us at our base on Ross Island! A great day!

This is the Swedish Oden ice breaker ship (along with the coast guard ship- the Polar Sea- it breaks up the sea ice and creates a channel for our supply vessel to reach the base for off load) the little black dots in front of the ship are 75 or so Adelie penguins!

ice pressure ridges

Here are some of Paul's scenic shots of the ice pressure ridges that form when the temporary sea ice collades with the permanent ice shelf of Antarctica. Amazing !
Sea Slug AKA Weddel Seal hanging out in the ridges.

mt erebus, fishing shacks on skis & more

Hi all! Some quick pictures to enjoy! Paul at the top of observation hill , behind him is Mt Erebus - the volcano!
front door of paul's shop and work dept. building- Facilities Engineering Maintenance and Construction (FEMC )
Portable fishing huts - on skis - used mostly by researchers.
Monica outside the base on the ice shelf near our airfield.