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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.

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

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