{"id":789,"date":"2013-01-17T22:46:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T03:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inaheartbeat.ca\/tyl\/?p=789"},"modified":"2013-01-17T22:46:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T03:46:28","slug":"day-18-union-glacier-more-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/day-18-union-glacier-more-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 18: Union Glacier &#8211; More bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian specialist engineer is not due to Punta until Saturday\u2026 Apparently he has to be really small so he can fit in the engine \u2013 I kid you not \u2013to repair the part\u2026 So even if the situation is perfect and he repairs the plane Saturday, they test it, and if the weather holds the soonest we can get in will be Sunday &#8211; but in truth, no one is expecting it to go that smoothly.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To entertain ourselves, we put our cross-country skis put back together. Dale and I went for a 15-kilometre ski out to something known as the US Cache\u2013 detritus from a prior camp. Diego worked on his tan. Michel created an igloo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-795\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tgwhfonline.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/michel-igloo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-795 \" alt=\"michel igloo\" src=\"https:\/\/tgwhfonline.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/michel-igloo1.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/michel-igloo1.jpg 814w, https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/michel-igloo1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/michel-igloo1-768x514.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Michel White and his igloo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-793\" style=\"width: 454px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tgwhfonline.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-793\" alt=\"shower\" src=\"https:\/\/tgwhfonline.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shower.jpg\" width=\"454\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shower.jpg 454w, https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shower-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The shower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_791\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-791\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tgwhfonline.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/diego-tan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-791 \" alt=\"diego tan\" src=\"https:\/\/tgwhfonline.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/diego-tan.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/diego-tan.jpg 775w, https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/diego-tan-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/diego-tan-768x514.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Diego working on his tan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the day was a five-minute shower. You take really hot water, a great big pail, a hose and a small pump and can provide a very quick shower. BEST EVER!!!!! Clean body, clean hair, refreshed viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Diego has been working his charm and his multiple \u201cins\u201d among the workers. We found out that tomorrow is the last of the eggs and tonight was the last of the Diet Coke. Being the gentleman that he is, Diego gave me half of his. Although certain food types are diminishing, there are apparently vast stores at Union Glacier so at this stage it is not something they\u2019re going to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re working on getting medication for Dale from Punta and that part of the plan is going well. Given that, we now have Plan A, which is if the Ilyushin is repaired; Plan B to bring the medications in by the Chilean air force; Plan C is the DC3 takes Dale out; and Plan D is to adjust some of his medications differently. I\u2019m feeling a lot better about that knowing that there are alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone\u2019s maintaining their spirits as best as possible. We really want to come home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian specialist engineer is not due to Punta until Saturday\u2026 Apparently he has to be really small so he can fit in the engine \u2013 I kid you not \u2013to repair the part\u2026 So even if the situation is perfect and he repairs the plane Saturday, they test it, and if the weather holds &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/day-18-union-glacier-more-bad-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 18: Union Glacier &#8211; More bad news&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2013-category","category-history","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}