Audio Dispatch

Hey there Aaron in Antarctica, day 34. Camp position South 82 degrees 21 decimal 493 minutes, position West 079 degrees 59 decimal 788 minutes. Time traveled 8 hours, distance 10 and a half miles. Holy cow, you really gotta power the whole day to get real miles here. I missed a good hour towing cause I noticed that my, even though I’m wearing Arc’teryx Beta AR super shell pants, the zipper in ther lower leg, fortunately not the upper leg, has actually disintegrated. It’s not that the zipper is torn but the teeth have actually pealed away from the base material. So, I put some duct tape on it to keep me through the day but I’m gonna have to give that thing a couple stitches, I definitely wish I would have brought some everyday sewing needles cause the ones I brought, these auto threading things, I don’t know if they’re going to survive this and I only have a few so, I don’t want to break those things. So the expensive equipment destruction derby continues. Also my left ski binding, the cable attachment, it kept popping open cause it was too loose, no matter how hard I crank that thing it just would not spin so I couldn’t tighten it. I would loath to possibly even break that thing, no way. So I got it off the ski, got it in the tent, everything warmed up and now it spins freely, go figure, probably just choked with ice. So I got that thing set and hopefully tomorrow I’ll be able to dial that in cause it definitely affects my stride. Also, for whatever reason both boot laces come loose and that gave me some hot spots on the pads of my feet, so I stopped and had to bandage those guys up. Not too bad but still another 15 minute intermission so really I gotta, I gotta really have to hit 9 hours to get up to 12 miles mark to really make things not so pressure bound here. Which is not that bad but still. You have a couple rough days, the weather is actually nice today. Developed a couple chilblaines on my chest cause it’s, I’m so warm I have to unzip my jacket but the wind bites in so. It’s a constant fight, it’s really weird, I just get too hot, ironic for being in Antarctica. In fact in my tent it’s probably zero degrees or warmer it’s, to me it’s really hot. So that’s all kinda interesting. Travel today was interesting too cause I went over this massive dome, I mean you couldn’t really tell you were going over but you notice there were objects in the horizon sitting there and as you rolled over you look back and you saw hey there’s some odd landscape there, which is quite neat. So it’s not just this continuous plain there actually is subtle undulations. Which means your going up hill and down hill and variation. The sastrugi in some parts are almost non existant today allowing me to really open it up, as much as you can say opening it up and then also some of it’s really bad so it slowed me down. So sometimes your marching quick and other times not so quick. And a shout out to Aunt Nancy here, hope your still marching around Miller Park, probably in the green of winter instead of the white of winter of Jackson right now. I really think about you being here with me in spirit and going along in Antarctica without all the suffering and challenges. Hope all is well with everyone and we’ll leave a message tomorrow. Out!