Tomorrow at 9am, I will be off to snow school. If I didn't explain it before, snow school (or Happy Camper, or Snow Craft 1) is where they take you out and, among other things, teach you how to survive outside away from the station overnight. The ironic (or maybe not so ironic) part of this is that there is a large storm bearing down on the station, so the big question number one is will we actually be able to leave station tomorrow morning? The next question is whether or not they'll take us out if they believe that serious conditions are expected. I mean, it's one thing to take us out to teach us...it's another thing to take us out and we actually DO get stuck out there for a day or 2.
At any rate, I should be back by around 4pm on Saturday. Should be interesting. The LT who teaches my D/O (driver/operator) class at 2pm on Saturday is going to flip his lid.
In the picture with the penguin, I wasn't wearing a coat because it was fairly warm out (must be warm to snow) and we were just jumping outside the door for the picture and then running back in. No big deal.
Here's some more pictures from the week in snow....
From a break in the weather Monday. The sun was breaking through the clouds, and shining on the mountains (which are about 60 miles away, by the way).
The kitchen window in Station 1, in town from last night. You couldn't even see out. And the snow looked like little pieces of popcorn stuck to the window.
2 comments:
You mean...it's one thing to take us out to teach us...it's another thing to take us out and die, which is what I would do if I had to spend 1 minute out in that weather and with out a jacket??????? Have you gone mad?? I don't care how warm it was, it could not have been warm enough to take off that big beautiful orange jacket, gloves hat and scarf (which I notice you dont wear)
Well if you insist on going then make sure you keep the jacket zipped and the hat mittens and scarf are on and dont forget to use vaseline on your cheeks. Hopefully they will have hot chocolate with marshmellows waiting for you when you get back.
Can you say cuckoo
Hey Jennie,
Hope you had fun and that you were able to get back . . . Did you take pictures or was it too cold or snowy?
Be well! Leslie
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