In the spirit of #throwbackthursday here's a good'y from the archive.  I think that this was shot around 2000 during an Austral summer on Ross Island in Antarctica.  I was working as a Field Instructor - responsible with keeping scientists and support crew who were being funded under the National Science Foundation - safe while working for the US Antarctic Program.  One of my tasks was monitoring the safety and stability of the sea ice in McMurdo Sound and so would often embark on late night Skidoo trips out to the historic Shackleton and Scott huts at Cape Royds and Cape Evans, checking the sea ice cracks along the way.  This was shot probably around midnight in November or December - the sun never sets at this latitude between roughly October and February.  This is my good friend Bo Baumgartner and Shackleton's 1908 hut from his Nimrod Expedition to reach the South Pole - the one from which Apsley Cherry-Garrard wrote the epic story 'The Worst Journey in the World' - a must read if you are a fan of this era (or any) of exploration and adventure.  Although these huts have been thoroughly inventoried and documented by the Antarctic Heritage Trust out of New Zealand, they do sit pretty much - food, shoes, sleds, ropes, bunks, etc. - just as they were left the day Shackleton and his men departed.  This image ran in the winter Patagonia catalog around 2001.