Frosty flips

Its Sunday again and we are having pretty sunny weather, so last night it was decided that we should make the best of the nicer weather and do a trip to the windscoop. Initially I was part of the crew that would be staying behind to look after the base, but when morning came, most people chickened out, so I could jump over to the bunch that was going.

After struggling till forever to get two working skidoos down from the hangar, we were finally off. Vince on the one skidoo with a cargo sled to take emergency rescue equipment and snacks, and Braam on the other skidoo with me and Johan on a passenger sled. About half way there Braam's fingers were pretty much frozen, so he switched so Johan can drive further. I have to say about the same time I was also seriously freezing. Even if its sunny with not much wind,  -27ºC is really cold! Even my toes (inside two pairs of  -25ºC rated socks and Pampoenskoene) were aching, not even mentioning my fingers inside 3 pairs of proper gloves with some (later discovered to be completely nonfunctional) handwarmers.

Nobody wants to be the wuss that caused the others to have to go back earlier, so at the next stop I started running and jumping around like a crazy person just to warm up. It totally worked! We fooled around on the ice for a bit, doing cartwheels and handstands like monkeys, but the cold was kinda getting to everyone and hot choc under a snuggly blanket was seriously starting to sound like an awesome plan!

**more ice fooling around photies on the pics page..

On the way back me and Braam sat the wrong way round on the sled and kinda huddled together for warmth (it was really really just for survival purposes!!) which seemed to work pretty well.

Hopefully we'll have some more sunny (warmer) weekends to go play around in the snow!