On the Sea Ice

For those not familiar with the Tucker Sno Cat, your memory may be refreshed by thinking of Jack Torrance. Shortly before he sank an axe into the chest of the would-be-rescuer cook played by Scatman Crothers, Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson, removed the alternator from a Tucker Sno Cat to prevent his wife and child from escaping his murderous mania at the Hotel Overlook.

This snowmachine equivalent of a '79 Coup de Ville and I have been rumbling up and down the sea ice of McMurdo Sound the last couple weeks. With it I haul propane and propane accessories to refuel the fish huts used by seal scientists, penguin researchers and divers. I relight pilots. I flare piping. I keep the huts warm. I am Hank Hill as an Ice Road Trucker.