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  • I went to the skiway four times to hitch a ride on one of these resupply flights, only to languish for hours on padded blue plastic chairs before being sent back to camp.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • The following day, December 17, air operations were shifting to the firmer skiway at Ellly Field.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • We shifted places, and I drove Becky down the skiway.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • One day, we went out to the skiway, a landing strip consisting of compressed snow over glacial ice (the "ice runway," another facility at McMurdo, is sea ice stripped of its snow).

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • It was a small patch of snow groomed as a skiway, and a cluster of black dots.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • Observed on latrine wall, C.ntral West Antarctica deep-field camp Resuming the quest for Seismic Man and his group, I wheedled my way onto a fuel flight to C.ntral West Antarctica, and after a series of false starts I was transported to the skiway with four members of a science project staging at C. W.A enroute to Ice Stream B.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • We stopped enroute at the skiway on the southern side of Hut Point peninsula for a couple of hours of downhill skiing.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • When we drove to the skiway, rays of the butterscotch light of late summer were shining through the stratocumulus.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • [STOL] characteristics, the Twin Otters are smaller and lighter and therefore require less length on the skiway.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows lyncadence 2010

  • I walk to the end of the skiway to absorb the silence.

    Scientific American 2009

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