New Year’s Eve Party

Jessie and I are not much of New Year’s Eve partiers. We usually sit on the couch in Park City, try to make it to 10PM to watch the ball drop, and then go to bed to get up for another ski day. But this year the South Pole New Year’s Eve party was pretty amazing. Because of COVID, we held the party outside for the first time. It was awesome.

It was about -30C with -45 wind chill. There was a snow bar serving six different drinks. The coco tamarind old fashioned was delicious. They also mixed up some really good mojitos. There are some unique problems to serving drinks at these temperatures, but the ice melting is not one of them.

There were snow sculptures. And a really steep sledding hill. I took one run, and decided I wanted to remain healthy for the remainder of the season.

I got some frisbee golf in with some of the COLDEX scientists (another project I’m part of).

Fortunately, there was a fire going in an old barrel which allowed us to warm up. We burned the old wood pallets that everything gets shipped up to South Pole on. It was pretty fantastic evening, even if I still only made it to 11PM.

T.J.