<\/a>Tristan atop Ob Hill <\/div>
Making a panorama<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Laura descending <\/div>
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<\/a>Ob Hill, summit slightly silhouetted <\/div>
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<\/a>Tristan <\/div>
In wide angle<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Castle Rock <\/div>
Mostly overcast. Occasional awesome sunbeams<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>To Castle Rock we go <\/div>
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<\/a>Foothills <\/div>
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<\/a>Group photo on summit <\/div>
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<\/a>Natalie and Mt Erebus <\/div>
Well, a bit of Erebus, and some clouds<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Descneding <\/div>
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<\/a>Natalie and Castle Rock <\/div>
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<\/a>Ryan at the base <\/div>
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<\/a>Preparing to sled <\/div>
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<\/a>Ryan sledding <\/div>
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<\/a>Sideways <\/div>
Trays aren't the most directionally stable of sleds<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Laura skips the steep part <\/div>
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<\/a>Natalie walks to sledding start <\/div>
She was ahead of me the rest of the way<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Tristan sledding <\/div>
Kicking up snow in an attempt to steer\/brake<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Tristan disappears <\/div>
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<\/a>![\"Laura](\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8326\/8363956974_3e1e056906_n.jpg\" "\\"Laura")
Because Elio graciously took over Tristan’s shift early, a bunch of us night-shifters when on a midnight trip to Castle Rock. And Elio got to be alone for his shift. Again, this involved a climb up the rock, and a sled down the glacier on galley trays. Good times. Also a couple photos from Ob Hill the previous evening. Finally some news: BLAST ran out of cryogens two nights ago, and was finally shut off the following day. Now it’s drifting around the continent until it gets back into range to terminate the balloon and recover. Elio will be recovering, and the rest of us are leaving soon. Thanks Elio. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6136,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions\/6136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}