My trip to the South Pole!

Well my day came to go to the South Pole for a month. I have been waiting for this since I got to Antarctica. The station is at an elevation of 9,300' (2900m), however the equivalent pressure elevation, based on polar atmospheric conditions, will vary from 10,800(3300m) to 13,120 (4,000m).

This is looking out the front of a LC-130 at some mountains. It was a short 3hour ride.

Here is the new station (on the right) and the old dome station (on the left almost covered in snow). If you click on the pic you can see 2 rows of Jame sways going from left to right. This is call Summer Camp it where most of the workers sleep. A Jame sway is a arched building divided with blankets into 14 rooms. Every day I would have to walk 500m to get something to eat in the new station.
Here's a overhead view of Summer Camp and which one I lived in.

Here it is the Geographic South Pole! I'm at the bottom of the world and haven't fallen off yet.

This is the marker. Because the ice is moving about 33 feet each year they make a new marker each year and place it at the South Pole.

Here is the ceremonial South Pole with the 12 original countries to sign the treaty.

Damn the ball is shiny. You might be asking yourself with 9000 feet of snow, no dirt, flat as far as you can see. Why the hell is his coat so damn dirty? Hell I don't know!
With 250 or so people on station it can get very lonely here. But just remember, its all UP from here.