Day 23
Lat S84deg 32.215’
Long W80deg 35.849’
Altitude 1283m
Daily distance 13.02nm
Last night was so hot I slept outside of my sleeping
bag. That was until it clouded over and the radiated heat died! Woke up feeling
rather chilly sometime after that happened. Just as I was dozing I heard an
aircraft pass over. Even without any noise from the wind it sounded faint but
seemed to be travelling from the direction of the pole to where I’ve come
from.
This morning when I opened the tent I was greeted by another sundog
along with a very light downfall of snow. It was quite eerie as there was fog
all round too but it was very mild without any wind.
This was after calling
home to wish my Mam a happy birthday and she told me there were lots of messages
of support on the blogs. Unfortunately I can’t see these now but looking forward
to reading them on my return to civilisation so thank you! The donations are
going up very slowly and I’d like to thank everyone who has donated so far. If
you haven’t then please find time to do so from the links in the bios or on the
website. It’s the least you could do for all this suffering!!
Having started
with a jacket purely because of the snow, I soon had to take it off as I was
beginning to sweat despite it being minus 15! Even the mitts were too warm so
switched to gloves without liners. It was a lot more comfortable in just my
Aclima base layer and it did just the job. Most of my base layers are Aclima and
I must thank the team at Nordic Outdoor for providing them. They also sorted out
my Hilleberg tent and getting the snow skirts added on which are
invaluable.
The ground conditions were much like yesterday otherwise and made
for hard work in the heat. This made it thirsty work and my rationing of drinks
went right out the window. I ended up leaving myself half a flask of sports
drink for my last three breaks. I know warm drinks are more readily taken up but
by scooping a load of snow into the flask lid first makes a much more refreshing
slush puppy! Probably didn’t add much in the way of liquid but they were so
nice.
Right now the wind is still absent so tent is very warm. In order to
enjoy my tea (chicken korma in a bag!) without sweating, I opened both the inner
and outer doors and had an almost alfresco dinner. Never in my wildest dreams
did I imagine I’d be eating my tea looking out over the Antarctic icecap from a
tent!!
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