New Flight Period

Today was the beginning of the new flight period. The ANG flys around Greenland for two weeks in and then spends two weeks at home in the States, then they repeat the process. Our first flight of the new flight period came in today. It was a DV flight. They spent a grand total of 1.75 hours on the ground here. They visited all of the science sites, including the MSF. Everybody on station was excited because it means that most of us are heading home sometime this flight period. I am scheduled out, I believe this to be correct, on the next flight from Kanger. This means I am a short timer. I am definitely at the point of being ready to head home.

The temps are relatively nice right now, in the 10 to -20 F range. I am ready for warmer temperatures and not crawling into a freezing sleeping bag. I also am not going to miss having to cover my head at night to keep the frost bite from attacking my head. I will take a photo of my boots frozen to the floor and how I have things set up in there. One of the fun things I have seen in the last few weeks is having my water bottle frozen solid first thing in the morning, even though I have hot water in it when I leave the Big House the previous night. There are times that it is really nice in the tent, like late mornings when it actually gets up into the 60-70 range in there. But since I am working during the day I don't get to spend that much time in there when it is that nice.

It is currently 0F 11 knots winds and -18 F windchill. I am wondering what I should do for the next 6 hours, since I usually don't go to bed until after midnight. This is the long time of each day, when time seems to crawl. At the beginning it was not as bad as it is now. This is one of the reasons I know that it is time for me to come home.

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