Rob with Snosticles 01042011

After lunch, Polar Slugs spent some time doing tasks for the actual race, which starts next Tues. Sorting out food for each of the legs, toilet roll, clean pants (LOL), treats etc.

We then packed up our pulks ready for another night out, further away from base camp. Jock issued us with our phones and contact details for our nightly call. before we could make tracks for our new base, we had to take down our tent from base camp, by South Camp Inn. This takes at least an hour, cleaning out all the ice, from both layers, clearing the snow from the valences, taking down and rolling up the two sections, with semi broken poles. Two pulks have the tent section on top, and mine has the gun, and the two spades.

The weather deteriorated quite quickly this afternoon, and by the time we were skiing to our new base, it was a semi white out and much colder. Our goggles steamed up quite quickly, so we removed them, and as you can from this picture of Rob we were soon covered in icicles. My eyes looked like Katie Waisels from one of her X-Factor performances!

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We successfully put up our tents (this took another hour!) dug our poo hole, with snow wedges, and escaped to the warmth of the tent, where Chef Rob had got the stoves going, made us all hot drinks, and started making the supper.It took us a while to get set up inside, but we are getting much more organised!

Supper for me tonight was chicken and rice which was quite yummy, followed by rice pudding. Yum.

I have bought the rugged laptop and iridium phone out for this trip, kindly provided by Pure Technology, to check that I can get it all working!

We are now 3 degrees further North than Gavin Henson, when they completed the final of 71 Degress North!

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