Blizzard aftermath
Getting them out
Merry 66 Xmas
Back to Mawson
Digging out #2
Digging out #1
Ghost of Christmas (long) past
Why did we stop?
Another blow
Moving again
North past nunataks
Up to the plateau from Mawson
Heading away
Trig point on Peak 7
Travelling past sunset
Rolling past Depot Peak
Blizz'd In
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Weather closing in
From an old slide. This looks like fog - it isn't, it's drifting snow blowing past at about 30 knots, with visibility steadily becoming worse. In full blizzard conditions visibility can drop to five metres or less. This already is "whiteout" though, with light bouncing between the white sky and surface: so shadows disappear, distances become almost impossible to estimate, and you fall over unseen sastrugi (with no shadows there's nothing to define it). Time to head indoors and wait for things to improve.
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