Yes, we have finally arrived. This is the two of us, dressed in "Big Red", the wonderful down-stuffed parkas we have here. We are standing just outside our dorm building, known as the Mammoth Mountain Inn









Below is what we left behind in New Zealand, Springtime at new Brighton Beach outside of Christchurch. The big vertical headland in the background has a great hiking path skirting the cliff top, going over into the next cove, about an hour walk one way to "Taylor's Mistake"

Isn't this a great pickup rig, just replace the normal wheels with track assemblies?

Many buildings here have commercial walk-in freezer doors for the exterior doors on the building. Unlike the usual code requiring public building doors to open outward, here they open inward so they will still function if there is heavy snow drifting against them.

The door up there is to the main science lab building. This is one of the labs containing seawater tanks, in which species gathered from around the contintntal edge are gathered and studied.

At work

This is me at work. Every day I make the rounds of about 10 buildings to check the furances to be sure that they have run lately (are they warm) and that there are no fuel leaks. I put my findings on a chart on the wall, and move on to the next one. The rounds take about an hour.
This the the medical center. It's a typical building, made of corrugated metal, many decades ago, with heavy freezer-type doors. The doors all open inward so they don't get caught in the wind. Last week the dentist here was teaching the doctor slated to work at South Pole (about 1000 miles from here) how to do dentistry because she'd be doing both.