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<\/a>Jay in a hopeless attempt to smoothly exit the Scott tent.<\/p><\/div>\n
We anchored the Scott tent down with all our gear, mostly the wooden rock boxes we constructed last week. It\u2019s in a super lovely location, sandwiched on a gentle slope between Rhone Glacier and Taylor Glacier. I can look out of the Scott tent door (once I manage to get it open) and see Blood Falls. Ridiculous.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Mari walking to her tent, with Rhone Glacier in the background.<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>View from my tent.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Jay checking in after we set up camp, in front of Taylor Glacier.<\/p><\/div>\n
We finished setting up pretty late, and were thoroughly starving and cold. We decided on a simple meal of frozen burritos, fried in butter, of course. Our water supply is a snow bank in a nearby gulley, which means that we have to melt snow anytime we want water. Basically, if we\u2019re in the Scott tent, we\u2019re melting snow. I don\u2019t mind, though, because it keeps my tent at least moderately warm. Or, rather, it keeps the upper part of the tent warm. The lower part of the tent is still frozen, as in, we keep the bag of snow in my tent and it doesn\u2019t melt. As in, if I put lukewarm water in a thermos and then put the thermos on the floor over night, the thermos is frozen solid. As is, it\u2019s really bloody cold on the floor of the tent.<\/p>\n
<\/a>First field dinner, first melting pot of snow.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our field housing design is low on the luxury scale. We\u2019ve split up into two camps\u2014Rhone and Pearse, with Jay, Mari, and I at Rhone. The Rhone camp has two small tents sleeping one person each, and a larger, pyramidal … Continue reading