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.