Departure of the drillers


Group shot at the South Pole departure lounge.

Driller panorama...

...with Herc in the background...

The IceCube and ARA drillers have packed up all of their equipment, placed it into storage, and are now headed home. It's the best group of ice drillers in the world as far as we know. They did the hot water drilling for IceCube and ARA as well as RAM drilling for ARA this season. It'll be a far smaller crowd next year for the small-scale ARA deployments. But in a few years...