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& gh watched my antics wondering what on earth my problem was. I gingerly turned my skidoo, bit by bit, & rode down to her -- abandoning my mitten to Antarctica.

We spent an hour & a half combing over the ice above the fold. Nothing. Except hundreds of small dark rocks to worry our consciences. Then home. Our tents on the far northern horizon. We made one photo stop at the edge of the moraine where Bill & Shiraishi & I searched 3 yrs ago & S. found the ureilite. Back to camp at high speed -- arrived ~ 3:30. John &  Bob went out to survey some points. I stayed out of tent until nearly 6:00. Repacked my 2 orange bags. Shoveled out around our tent, recovered lots of food bags. Shoveled out the privy tent so that the tunnel flap was not completely buried. Examined the cache & our food boxes w thoughts of retrograding what we don't need. Bill said we would probably pull everything to the western ice fields. Better use of our time is to do field work while we are here. Later, I talked to John. He said
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we will leave what we don't need & pick it up by helo in the end. Helped Bill & gh pack up Jim Arnold's ice blocks w a cart of a big meteorite in top side.

It is January 12. In 2 days I will have been here 3 weeks with one to go. My attitude is changing. I have made it w. no physical disabilities-- no heart arythmias, no back slipped, even head & elbow = O.K after my fall except for soreness when I lean on the elbow. It is beautiful here & a truly great adventure. The constraints, the urge not to be outperformed, the length of stay, my hopelessly flat, stringy, unruly hair & messy condition have made me sensitive as never before to the lot of people truly regimented -- prisons, chain-gangs, army, concentration camps -- anybody not free to arrange every day of one's life. This is an unanticipated reaction to a deluxe opportunity to work in Antarctica on an exciting scientific project. A glamorous sojourn.

But I have felt it--and now it is going. I never felt a glimmer of such the lst time. Perhaps because I was w easy-going Bill that season. Anyway, we have another 9 days or so & I am beginning to treasure them. 275 meteorites by tonight, plus a few in McM. 9:30 overcast, a little snow. A [[Shuo?]] flew over us as we rode toward the cul-de-sac, then saw 2 other near the art.