Chuck Kimball's Antarctic Page - Towards the Pole Antarctica Failure leads to the South Pole S unday was a rather quiet day around the Siple Dome Camp. It was a day off for everyone, and I spent it reading and watching videos. The cooks take the day off also, so it is a day of leftovers, and fending for yourself.
Camps require a little more involvement most the time anyway.
Everyone has to hand wash their own dishes, and the 'house mouse' duties rotate amongst those in camp. The house mouse is responsible for cleaning up the dinning area, and putting up the dishes after they dry. We were lucky having a large snow melter, in the smaller camps that is a job that everyone has to share - shoveling snow to be melted. Ours is done by a front end loader. Sunday evening the big event was the screening of the 'Wizard of Oz'.