Author Archives: Allen Foster

Photo Dump!! (most/all of the pretty photos you’ll see here were taken by Aman Chokshi – my fellow SPT winterover) According to Googling “Days since April 17th” it has been 89 days since my last update. I must admit, it’s nice to not have to worry about updating this thing but I think it’s beenContinue reading “July 15th – Day 238 on Ice”

We hit -100F!! ok, ok, not really… but we did get to -100F with windchill! The combination of ~15knt winds and -65F air temp has a feel of below -100F brrr! We are well within the regime of <5min frostbite on any unexposed skin, and getting to more normal winter temperatures. The Sun is nowContinue reading “Feb 28th – Day 101 at Pole”

Temps are rapidly dropping; we’re now at -50F and rapidly approaching -60F (according to met, we should reach it next week). Tonight we partake in the annual watching of ‘The Thing’ (all 3, actually) and really kick off the winter! We still have several demobilization flights passing through on their way off the continent, soContinue reading “Feb 18th – Day 91 at Pole”

Well it’s been a while since my last post, and a lot has happened. Long story short: I am wintering again! I’m excited, but also feel a bit of a push to get my thesis done this year which means getting a few projects finished that I’ve been working on so that I have resultsContinue reading “Feb 14th – Day 87 at Pole: 1st day of Winter!”

Whew! It has been a busy few days. The EHT summer person came down and is only here at Pole for 9 days, so had a really intense 5 days of EHT setup, observing and calibration. Most of the days ended up being 12-16 hours long because of some unforeseen problems — probably better forContinue reading “Feb 8th – Day 81 at Pole”

Had some interesting weather recently; from dark clouds to bright sunshine, perfectly calm to gusty blowing snow. I don’t have much to say but wanted to gloat about some sweet bling, courtesy of Aman and Cheng (SPT and BICEP respectively)! Since I didn’t run the marathon, I didn’t get a marathon medal, but they kindlyContinue reading “Jan 26th – Day 68 at Pole”

Blogy blog blog. It’s time to blog. This past weekend (Sunday, Jan 16th) was the rescheduled South Pole Marathon. Unfortunately the weather turned to crap again (literally just for the day and then calmed down right afterwards) but 12 people still ran! Only 3 people were to finish the full marathon (out of 7 signedContinue reading “Jan 19th – Day 63 at Pole”

Well there was a weather break and I took it! Very tired now. 80 miles in 23 hours. ITBS reared it’s ugly head at hour 3, and I had to deal w that the whole time. Lots of walking and cursing. More to come.