After spending a couple of days sorting out and moving our cargo, today we eventually made a remarkable progress - raising the tower and solar panels and making a pit for the electronics and battery box. Like many other ground instrument installations, digging snow or ground to make a pit is one of the most time-consuming and physically tiring jobs to do. To our surprise, it took only (?) about 4 hours to make a pit to fit our boxes, which is partly because the snow at the Pole is loose enough to shovel relatively easily although this job comes with our hard breathing due to the high altitude environment.
After work, going back to the station by our snowmobile while lying on the sled is quite fun.At our dinner table in the dining hall, we found someone riding a bike on the snow right next to the geographic south pole sign and national flag. Riding a bike on a loose snow seems pretty challenging.
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