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Mabel
1960
Journal
Nov.29 Cape Hallett, Antarctica.
Today we made what may be the last
trip to the petroley. We were all up
about 7 + after the usual [illegible] were
started by 9 A.M. The trip over
was uneventful, the ice is still good
through the road through the rough ice
leading to the air strip so holly melted
in place. One stretch was covered in 2
feet of water + I detoured around that
rather than tried the ice underneath.
Colin & Brian were dropped at Prior's
Plateau which they wished to ascend for
soil samples. Don Dangles and I drove
to the N. end of the cliffs. We were to
climb them there + meet the other 2
somewhere along the top. The climb
the time was quite easy, we used
campore and circled back up the
snow field where the slope was easier.
We spent a couple of hours scrambling
our way along the top of the cliffs-
looking for petrels + finally meet
Colin & Brian at the highest point of the
cliffs. All of us then descended the
back side of the cliffs to the sheney in
the moraine where we ate our lunch.
We left here about 3:15+ arrived at the