This year, Jaakko, Greg, and Dan are joined by Brendan and Nathan on the journey to Antarctica. We are in McMurdo Station right now getting ready to leave for the Dry Valleys.  We have had many weather delays this year.  We left Seattle on November 28, 2005 and arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand on November 30.  It took us three tries to get down to Antarctica.  The first flight was canceled due to bad weather.  On the second flight we were "boomeranged."  That means we got in the airplane and flew towards Antarctica for 4 hours, but then we had to turn around and fly back to Christchurch because the weather changed.  Finally, on the third try, we made it down to McMurdo Station in Antarctica.  We have had more weather delays down here.  We have all of our gear and food ready to go, but the helicopters haven't been able to take us out to the field area because it has been foggy.  Hopefully we will get to the Dry Valleys soon!

You can check out some photos from our trip so far on the 2005-06 Photos page.