{"id":5235,"date":"2011-01-31T17:08:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T21:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galadriel.astro.utoronto.ca\/ballast\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2011-01-31T17:08:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T21:08:16","slug":"sauna-to-pole-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=5235","title":{"rendered":"Sauna-to-Pole, Leaving"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 19th I left the pole, back to McMurdo and eventually home. In the previous evening, I had convinced a few people to join me spending some time building up warmth in the sauna and then dashing outside to the poles (and then right back to he sauna, of course).<\/p>\n

Back in McMurdo there was a ship in the harbour, and i checked it out with Matt. I had hoped to do some penguin hunting at Hut Point, but the road was closed at the time.<\/p>\n\n\t\t