Friday, May 26, 2006

Winter trips - the good.....

One of the best bits about the winter season the winter trips. Each winterer gets two trips, one before mid winter and one after, each around six days long. One of the most requested is trying to get to the semi abandoned chilean base at Carvajal which does have a certain marie celeste charm as well as much nicer sunsets than we get on the other side of the island. It's one big seal colony too which does give it a certain aroma. Which put me off a seafood diet a little.






The 'Carvajal Arms'. Note the chilean 'red death' above the bar....



Travel down there is by skidoo, towing two sledges with enough food and fuel to last for months and all tied together in case one of the 'doos finds a crevasse, although we usually walk through any suspect areas first to find a safe route. It's funny how your acceptable risk level drops when the nearest hospital is 5000km away and they haven't left us an ambulance.



It's about 80km to Carvajal which is a good days drive and blessed with perfect weather we managed to get a little climbing in on the way home thinking that there wasn't much to this winter trip lark.....

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