{"id":73,"date":"2010-05-27T01:25:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T01:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cires.colorado.edu\/blogs\/shupe\/?p=73"},"modified":"2014-06-05T21:27:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T21:27:43","slug":"traversing-the-ice-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/2010\/05\/27\/traversing-the-ice-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Traversing the ice sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/traverse1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-74\" title=\"traverse1\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/traverse1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/traverse1.jpg 758w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/traverse1-300x71.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/a>Today the &#8220;traverse&#8221; arrived&#8230;\u00a0 a month&#8217;s journey from Thule over the ice sheet to Summit.\u00a0 They brought fuel (much more efficiently than with aircraft) and supplies.\u00a0 The Case pulled most of the weight, while the Tucker pulled living quarters for the crew and some supplies, while it also pushed a downward-looking, ice penetrating radar.\u00a0 These tractors are pretty amazing and quite capable in this environment.<a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/traverse21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-76\" title=\"traverse2\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/traverse21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the &#8220;traverse&#8221; arrived&#8230;\u00a0 a month&#8217;s journey from Thule over the ice sheet to Summit.\u00a0 They brought fuel (much more efficiently than with aircraft) and supplies.\u00a0 The Case pulled most of the weight, while the Tucker pulled living quarters for the crew and some supplies, while it also pushed a downward-looking, ice penetrating radar.\u00a0 These&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/2010\/05\/27\/traversing-the-ice-sheet\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 14:57:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}