The map below gives you a rough idea of our route to our Schmidt Hills camp, which was documented in the pictures in my last post.
Our adventure continued in the Schmidt Hills! We spent the morning of our first full day in the Schmidt Hills organizing our camp. After that, we hiked up to the nearest mountain to begin to orient ourselves to the area.
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| Heading out of camp for our first hike in the Schmidt Hills |
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| You can barely see our camp in the distance! For those of you who are following a map, this photograph was taken facing east across the valley in the middle of the Schmidt Hills. |
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| Greg and Chris summiting the peak to the ESE of camp, just north of Mount Coulter on the map above. |
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| Group shot! We are wearing harnesses because we had to rope up to cross the snow and ice immediately below the edge of the exposed rock. |
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| Seth admiring the view out to the shear margin of the Foundation Ice Stream. The force that the fast-flowing ice of the ice stream places against slower surrounding ice stresses the ice at the margin. The ice cracks in response to this stress, causing a band of crevasses. In this photograph, the shaded, rough-looking area you see beyond the rock is the eastern shear zone of the Foundation Ice Stream. |
I'm also working on creating a maps page where you can see higher-resolution satellite imagery of our field area.
Stay tuned! Hope all is well,
Claire
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