tiabunna's photos with the keyword: Snowtrac

Copied from an old slide. One of my colleagues reclining on a Snowtrac vehicle on the edge of the Antarctic plateau, near Mt Henderson just outside Mawson station. The surface is hard snow-free blue ice. As would be expected, how else would a trendy skier travel except in a Porsche-powered vehicle? The Snowtracs had Porsche industrial engines. :-) This one was fitted with sounding equipment for glaciology measurements, Best viewed large.

From an old 1966 slide. Snowtrac vehicle fitted with experimental sounding equipment for measuring the ice thickness. View looking north over Mawson (below the brow of the ice, just right of the vehicle) and showing the relative steepness of the climb to the plateau.

From an old 1966 slide. This is one of the Snowtrac vehicles on the edge of the Antarctic plateau, near Mt Henderson just outside Mawson station. The surface is blue ice and how else would a skier travel except in a Porsche-powered vehicle? :) Yes, the Snowtracs did indeed have Porsche industrial engines.

Copied from an old slide. The coastal plateau near the coast around Mawson typically is hard glassy blue ice and not really suited to skiing, but not far inland an area at Fischer Nunatak had suitable snow surfaces, so a field hut had been placed there. Taken near sunset during a skiing excursion in the Snowtrac vehicle, with the North Masson and David ranges in the background and Mt Hordern far away to the right. This is from some rolls of 'high speed" Ektachrome (160 ASA/ISO) which we developed while at Mawson. The results were reasonable but gritty due to water shortages limiting washing. This has now been 'digitally cleaned' to some extent.