Some of my favourite photos from the BLAST-Pol launch campaign. November 2012 to January 2013 in McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
This is just a collection of previously-uploaded photos. Titles and captions may not all make sense without their original context.

Pink rose

Juan's cave
Which he soon vacated, because it was getting hot inside

Sled ride
Tyr pulls me back to the highbay from the storage area

Enzo and Mt Erebus
Grinning because he has a snowball

Dessert
One of each, of course!

Posing for the star camera
BLAST was rotated so that the SBSC points towards the mezzanine. Natalie capitalizes on this circumstance

Mark
Takes his pipe on the walk

Juan
Wears his issued "bunny boots"

Inner frame
Mirrors and star cameras

Setting the ladder up the back

Chief and antennas
Our crew chief (Mark) switches from The Boss back to the crane. Amongst the antennas on the top

BLAST and I
Taken by Juan

Tyr
Rocking the goggles, hard hat, and big red style

Me and the snow
Also taken by Juan

Elio
Looking majestic

LDB Panorama

LDB
Has flags now

Greg
With camera

LDB
As seen from Ob Hill

McMurdo

Laura

Colombian flag

Boom prep
Laying the flight train down for Super-TIGER's compatibility test

Team Rotate

Pointing at the sun
A rare and usually avoided occurrence. The telescope opening is covered to prevent explosion

BLAST comes inside
With scenic backdrop

Anne
Was our guide

Pressure ridge
Uplifted ice, with sea water, and mountains in the background

Bunny ears

Two telescopes
On the decks of neighbouring highbays

Group photo
I adopt a normal pose, and Tyr compensates by being goofy

Barth supervises tests

Elio in the crawlspace between the mirror and readout electoronics
You can see that it's not a happy place to be

Super-cool TIGER hat
With sun glasses

Laura comes outside
To watch launch preparations

Person for scale
Serious scale

Scott

Piball released
Done evey 30 minutes in preparation for launch

Piball tracking
Provides profile of wind vs altitude

Bye Enzo

I'm learning to cross-country ski
Photo from Andrei

BLASTPol

The cleaned telescope
In profile, slightly

The Boss picks us up

Tyr and Castle Rock

Stopping to Pose II

"What, you guys don't just leap up mountains?"

Sledding down the hill
Natalie gets some good speed

More cable taping

Timelapse testing Tristan

Stack of connector pins
Mark made this far longer than I expected. Can you tell we're not all busy all the time anymore?

Natalie
Being a NASA cetified crane operator

Laura caroling
At the Christmas Eve party

Obligatory The Boss plus BLAST plus highbay shot
I'm almost out of obligatory shots, the rest will be launch specific

Flightline setup

Antistatic smocks
For dealing with explosives. EXPLOSIVES!

Fire in the balloon

Balloon inspection

This is not a "cool guys don't look at explosions" moment
Thankfully

Inflation panorama

Anticipation

Balloon rising

Launch
With The Boss gunning it in reverse

Penguin!
Briefly does something

Storage shelves
Less empty

Weddell Seal
Frolicking in the sun. This one moved more than all other seals I've watched combined

Arrival heights and McMurdo
As seen from Vince's cross, at the tip of hut point

Laura descending

Tristan
In wide angle

To Castle Rock we go
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