Scott's Historic Hut at Cape Evans

Add placed in newspaper to solicit persons for Shackleton's first Antarctic Expedition.
Scott's Hut at Cape Evans. I helped organize multiple trips and train all the guides to be able to get out to Cape Evans to see the historic hut out there where Shackleton and his men first stayed, followed by Scott and his men. The trip out takes about 2 hours in a delta across the sea ice. This trip happened back in October, so I'm a little late on pictures. These trips have ended because the sea ice is too thin to drive out on now, and the ship is here breaking up the ice right now.
Mount Erebus in the background with the hut in the foreground. Mount Erebus is the highest point on Ross Island and is an active volcano. There is often a small plume coming from the top.

Inside the hut- this is the dinner table. This is somewhat eerie as it seems like Scott's men could have just been sitting at this table yesterday. The cold weather and dry conditions preserve artifacts here very well. The Antarctic Heritage Trust has been spending a lot of time working to preserve and clean items in the hut, as well as around it.

There is a lot of food that was left- it's odd to see Heinz ketchup containers and cocoa stacked up in the hut.

That is an emperor penguin on the table that they were dissecting and a newspaper next to it. The penguin has been preserved in the same condition since they left it there.

A view of some of the bunk beds, and the table.

The kitchen area from what I can observe- all the food items are stacked on shelves here along with dishes and bottles. Some of the bottles still have frozen liquids in them, but I'm not sure what they are. There are stables on the outside of the building, and their is also a stack of seal skins in the stables entrance that can definitely start to get smelly when the weather starts to warm.

This snow is on the side of the hut, the wind had blown through causing the waves in the snow and the overhang, it's interesting and beautiful to see the formations the snow and ice become because of the wind.

My sad attempt at a snow angel- the snow was pretty frozen solid, so I barely made an impact. That's Taryn laughing at me and taking pictures in the photo as well.

An excellent site to check out if you want to learn more about the hut and historic items about Antarctica:
http://www.heritage-antarctica.org/AHT/