Heading towards the Clipper Adventurer. Wow, walking out onto the pier yesterday afternoon to board the ship, the energy was amazing and I could literally feel the blood coursing through my veins with excitement. My body was shaking with nervous energy and I think the everyone was feeding off of each other, waiting for the [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Crossing the Drake Passage
by November 7th, 2009Bon Voyage! Off To Antarctica With IceAxe Expeditions
by November 6th, 2009Skiing above Ushuaia, Argentina. Alright folks, this is the day I have been looking forward to for the past few months. It is the day our ship sets off across the Drake Passage, towards some of the most insane ski terrain in the world with IceAxe Expeditions. Traveling across the Drake Passage should be very [...]
More skiing on the Marshall Glacier, Ushuaia
by November 5th, 2009More radness in Ushuaia. Another day of skiing up in the Marshall Glacier zone yesterday. This time it was with Thomas Laakso and Adam Clark. Thomas is the ski category manager for Black Diamond Equipment and Adam Clark is a pretty well known photographer in the ski world. Skiing up to the Marshall is pretty [...]
A Little Skiing Out of Ushuaia
by November 4th, 2009Ushuaia harbor. Got out skiing for a few hours today. No real plan…just cruise up to the glacier and tour around to get my legs back under me and grab a feel for the conditions. I’m glad I brought a couple pairs of skis with me, since the snow conditions are extremely variable, ranging from [...]
36 Hours Later…And Now In Ushuaia
by November 3rd, 2009Sam Bass psyched to have made it to Ushuaia, Argentina. Wow…36 hours of non-stop traveling…and now I’m here in Ushuaia with an amazing group of people. It was very cool to see the group size heading to Antarctica slowly grow from just three of us flying out of Jackson, to larger numbers rendezvousing in Atlanta…and [...]
Off to Ushuaia, Argentina..and Beyond!!!
by November 1st, 2009Kind of mellow dramatic, but click here for some musical accompaniment to this post. Wow, the day is finally here and today I am off to Ushuaia, and the southern most point of Argentina and South America. It will take two full days to get there, but luckily the longest flight to the southern hemisphere [...]
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