Getting stuck

After my cheery post yesterday, saying that the hard slog was over, it turns out ANITA is coming back into our line of sight.  This means I do have to come back out to work to take part in 24 hour shifting until ANITA disappears once more over the horizon (hurry up, hurry up, hurry up).

This brings me to a fun problem.  It's no longer freezing here!  So taking a 60 ton vehicle across the transition from land to ice shelf becomes pretty eventful.  The transition itself no longer looks like smooth ice sheet, rather a series of rock pools and ice pools.  Drive too fast, and the bumps send everyone flying, kind of like a cheap ride at a fairground.  Drive too slow though, and the 60 ton vehicle doesn't get very far.

Doesn't look like it should be stuck really, does it?

So far I've been stuck twice on the road out to work.  Both times away from the transition on the main Willy Field road, also a mushy pit just waiting to trap Deltas.  At least I got some exercise out of it - walking back to base when I couldn't be bothered to wait half a hour for fleet ops to come drag us out.