Pretend that this is Jan 20, 2009 & that I'm writing to you from the field (and sorry that it took me so long to blog!!!):
I'm still pinching myself. The Miers Valley is incredible, really and truly like nothing that I have ever seen. Our camp sits to the side of the Miers Valley stream system. Uphill are the twin glaciers, the Addams and Miers glaciers. Downhill is Miers Lake. There are 8 of us now at camp - there will be 10 of us tomorrow again when Don and Eric get back. Don is a kiwi who is a professor in South Africa - he is our camp morning bugle (wake-up call). He bellows out "Good mooooorning campers" in his deep kiwi voice. We all slept in this morning with him gone at another camp.
Here is a snapshot of some of the temperatures around camp - a thermoprofile if you will (this is especially for you, Dinah!):
Outside temp: 1.7 degrees Celsius
Sleep tent in the morning (when the sun was shining on it for a few hours):20.8 degrees C (!!!)
Heated Lab Tent: 17.2 degrees C
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