The sky was overcast, there was a medium S wind and the seeing was bad. Most of the rocks on the ice appeared to be granites but there was a scattering of dark meteowrongs to make life difficult. There was nothing more to be done, so we huddled in our sleeping bags in our tents until dinner time and then retired. The wind came up very strong during the night, shaking the tent. I was in a double sleeping bag that I could not zip up over my chest, so threw my parka over the exposed top of me and weathered the storm that way.
Nomad is functional today.
Stewart started it early, at 9 a.m., but then had to wait for Sib, who had been working late. Finally Sib appeared, and around noon Nomad started to work well, trying to avoid obstacles. We had no communications with the field party. Alex spent the morning trying to get a phone patch with Commander Salazar to see if we had obtained a reduced rate on our communications, and with Comandante Barrueto to see if a package he had agreed to send to the U.S. had actually gone. After lunch the group met to decide our approach for the next weeks.