For just a taste of Happy Camper School, please watch and enjoy this video.
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Happy Camper School introduced me to much more than just how to survive in Antarctica. There were many fascinating people at Camp with me. I met a group who are in Antarctica filming for a new BBC series called Frozen Planet, there was a team of scientists who are studying lava lakes on Mt. Erebus, people who help organize and keep McMurdo Station running smoothly, airplane pilots, and a bunch of other folks who have the most interesting reasons for coming to the Ice. Also, the camp is in a breathtakingly beautiful area. I could see Mt. Erebus, Black Island, White Island, and the New Zealand Scott Base from the Happy Camper site known as Snow Mound City. McMurdo Station is a great town, but to me it feels just like a fishing village in Alaska. There are dirt roads, heavy machinery, buildings built all willy-nilly, and delicious galley food, all things I experienced in my years working as a salmon and crab fisher in the U.S.'s fiftieth state. It was not until I went to Happy Camper School that it really began to sink in that I am in ANTARCTICA!!!
WOW!