Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Tim Atherton, > >Yellowknife, >NWT, Canada > >(Current temperature -39c and my girlfriend wants to go for a walk!) I remember lots of -40degree(F=C at -40) days on the ice. Kept my Retina under my parka until I wanted a photograph then out it came, off came the big thick mittens, take a photo then back on with the mittens and back under the parka went the camera. Minus -40 was not so bad, I even worked outside all morning at -60degrees F but what was really too much was -40 and 40 knot winds. I still had to walk 1/3 mile along a flagged rope line to my under_the_snow "laboratory" but it was not any fun. Lots of days like that at Byrd Station at 80degrees South and 120degrees West but not so many in the "banana-belt" at Ellsworth Station on a floating ice shelf southwest of Cape Town, South Africa. Dale - --- $ dale-reed@worldnet.att.net Seattle, Washington U.S.A. $