After weeks of flight delays, the situation at camp began to feel a bit absurd. We had sat down to our final Saturday dinner as a 6-man crew:  steak and lobster, the fanciest thing we could find in the freezer trench. But that had been three weeks ago, and we’d been repeating the last-Saturday ritual […]

The construction crew and new camp staff arrived on station almost two weeks ago, and we’ve been in a relentless push to make the most of the summer season. The freshie shack is once again replete with fruits and vegetables, and we’ve been eating delicious fresh greens and fruit salads: food now prepared by a […]

The last sunset was four days ago, and the sun climbs yet higher each day. Gone are the long hours of polychromatic twilight and the spectacular auroral displays in the darkness. These phenomena of the winter and spring seasons have been replaced by the phenomena of the full sun and the nearly daily appearance of […]