GRAND CANYON, NORTH RIM, AZ - Car camping on the rim, hiking down the Bill Hall Trail to Deer Creek. Up the Colorado River to Tapeats Creek, Thunder Falls and back out. With Matt & Agnes Hage.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Once we're back, we hang all the gear to dry and air out before packing it all away until it's needed for the next camping trip.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: The ride back is rocky like being on a boat even as we keep on the existing tracks.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Another round of packing, squeezing, stuffing and craming, just like any car camping trip, to get all our gear loaded up and back to the station.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Around 9.30 AM our ride shows up from the station.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Kuwon slept soundly in his snow trench and finally emerges, oblivious that much of the gang has already been up for a while.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Ah, home sweet home. But now it's time to start packing it up.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: The sun is barely able to shine through the clouds.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: The clouds moved in over night and we were greeted by a windy gray sky the next morning. Everybody starts taking the tents down to strike camp.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: After a satisfying round or two of chasing the Frisbee around on the Antarctic Plateau, it's time to head for bed under the brillant glow of the midnight sun.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Niel takes a flying leap to snag a throw that is nearly out of reach.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Chris launches the flying disc.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Once we're done putting up tents and building snow walls, it's time to have some fun and we get the Frisbee out.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: After Elyssa crawls in, Kari comes over to check the igloo out.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Elyssa hangs out in front of an ingloo that was built by the previous group that came out here to camp.
South Pole - Phil - Happy Camper School: Antarctic Survival Training. A night out camping on the Antarctic Plateau not far from the South Pole.
South Pole - Chris - Happy Camper School: Antarctic Survival Training. A night out camping on the Antarctic Plateau not far from the South Pole.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Kari holds a newly places block steady as Chris makes final adjustments fitting it right into place.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: One wall stands complete, the other needs a bit more help.
South Pole - Kari -Happy Camper School: Antarctic Survival Training. A night out camping on the Antarctic Plateau not far from the South Pole.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: After putting the Scott Tent up we turn our team on a fallen snow wall. We get it rebuilt to act as a windbreak to protect camp.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Arik and Phil shovel snow on the base flaps of the Scott Tent to help hold it down and to keep wind and snow from drifting underneath and into the floorless shelter.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Susan, our trip guide visitng from the McMurdo Field Safety Training Program, gathers the group to show us how to put up a true polar shelter, the Scott Tent.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Pete satisfies his urge to dig a hole in the snow. Little did he know there was plenty of shoveling to do back at the station.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Finally we arrive and camp is all a buzz with the folks who rode out on the Piston Bully snow vehicle. Some are setting up camp and others checking out the vast view.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Looking ahead, we still have a ways to go. Camp is established and is just a small bump on the horizon.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Except Chris and I who opted to ski out to camp.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: All packed up and heading out, the happy campers are off.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Antarctic Car Camping: John tosses Pete and Arik a sleeping bag to pack on the top of our "car" to head out in to the great white nothing to go camping for the night.
