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Everybody Get Your Sea Legs
Saturday, February 12, 2000

Armstrong

The Team's Call from the Antarctic Peninsula
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Hello Mountain Zone, this is Rick Armstrong from the Antarctic Expedition, and we are just approaching into the Antarctic Ocean right now, weather is overcast. I'd like to say 'hi' to [Unintelligible], my beautiful wife.

Everything's going great. Everybody is getting their sea legs under them and we're really looking forward to getting into the continent tomorrow. Everything's going great, the weather has cooled down and we're getting a little bit of a storm on us right now. Seas have picked up.

The weather here right now is 42° Fahrenheit, wind out of the northwest at 12 miles-per-hour. We have a wind-chill of about 34°. Humidity is 56%, and we have 18 hours of daylight. GPS reading right now is 59.13 latitude and 62.26 longitude.

And as I said, we just entered the Antarctic Ocean, so the water temperature has dropped quite a bit, and the weather has changed. Everybody's in good health and getting their sea legs established, we're all starting to feel really good, and we're definitely excited to get on the ice — on the peninsula. So tell everybody 'hi' and we look forward to talking to you tomorrow, from Antarctica. Bye.

—Rick Armstrong, MountainZone.com Corespondent

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