Hut Point Hike Redux

McMurdo's appearance has almost inverted in the 3 months I've been here.  As the summer has progressed, the white background with brown speckles has become a brown, dusty background with white speckles.  Our Christmas Day weather was quite nice so I hiked the Hut Point ridge line again and took some updated pictures.  Below are a couple sets that best illustrate the changes.

Finally, another short video from the hike.  This video starts looking at White Island and pans by Black Island and the Royal Society Range.  About 5 seconds into the video, the path leading out onto the sea ice is the old road that used to lead out to the Sea Ice Runway (the vague rectangular area also seen).  The speckling seen around 10 seconds in, below Black Island, is Pegasus Runway.  The runway was moved from the sea ice to the ice shelf the first weekend of December as the sea ice conditions deteriorated.