{"id":441,"date":"2022-08-30T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/?p=441"},"modified":"2022-09-02T02:42:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T02:42:39","slug":"arrived-at-mcmurdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/2022\/08\/30\/arrived-at-mcmurdo\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrived at McMurdo!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We finally got to fly down on August 28 after 11 days of being delayed! We almost got to fly on Saturday the 27th, all got dressed up in our warm clothes ready to head to the airport, and got a call from the hotel telling us to postpone things another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boarding the C17 in Christchurch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After the hectic check-in at the airport and last-minute gear try-ons, we made it onto the C17 to start the 5hr flight down south. We had a full flight, the place was loaded half with people and half with cargo, I had a Challenger Tractor track on a pallet in front of me, and Arunima was sitting near probably a literal ton of fresh fruit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View from my seat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We landed around 7:45pm on the ice, which was the first time any of us got to see Antarctica in the dark, even Dr. Chu, who has come down 15 times. We got our orientation done by 10pm, but since we got in so late, we had to wait until the next day to get our luggage. This meant we couldn’t brush our teeth, change out of our base layers, or anything! Luckily we grabbed all that first thing in the morning and got settled in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our last view of the plane before the bus took us into town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We finally got to fly down on August 28 after 11 days of being delayed! We almost got to fly on Saturday the 27th, all got dressed up in our warm clothes ready to head to the airport, and got a call from the hotel telling us to postpone things another day. After the hectic… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 04:22:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/lidarexploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}