Day 7: 4th November
Today we took to skis for the first time! The day was overcast, but with extra snow during the night we were able to don our skis, hitch up to our pulks and head off for the day as proper polar explorers. It turns out there is quite an art to cross-country ski-ing whilst pulling a laden pulk. It was not something I had ever done before and going both up-hill and down-hill proved to be quite challenging.
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| Pulling pulks up hill on skis. |
Everyone managed a spectacular fall at some point or other during the day. Antony gave us lesson on how to turn on the spot, go up-hill and control our speed down-hill. It was hard work but we began to progress and were rewarded with a prolonged lunch break under the shelter of our lifesystems bothy – a giant dome of orange material everyone can huddle under in bad weather. Altogether a great day.
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| Pulk bags finally laden into our sledges. |
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| Camp site huts - if only they were open for use! |
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