Sam's blog

For you who haven't heard yet, Im going to Antarctica. 6000 km's, in full autonomy, all around the continent. Where planning to travel east-antarctica, an area never expeditioned before.

More info: www.antarcticice.be

Or you can read a long article with all the details here:

http://www.flyozone.com/snowkites/en/news/archive/2011/07/18561/

I threw some pictures and movies together. Check it out here.

Woensdagmorgen terug voet op Belgische bodem gezet. Even wennen terug aan het andere leven. Veel slapen, bekomen, rusten. Ondertussen ook langzaam de knop opnieuw omdraaien en me richten op het studeren.

Vrijdag was ik te gast in het programma "Alles Goed" op focus-wtv. Hier kan je het fragment van mij en Hogan, de poolreiziger, bekijken. 

Op het vliegveld richting... thuis. 

Alaska voorstellen aan familie was een bijzondere ervaring. De pracht van dit stukje ongerepte natuur met hen delen betekende echt veel voor me. 

Nog genoten van de laatste dagen hier. Snowmachinetrip naar gletsjer en dagje snowboarden in Girdwood. 

Gisteren was er een afsluitend banket met alle mushers, fans, sponsors, vrijwilliggers, etc

Just had mushers meeting. Can't wait to get all the hoopla over with and be on the trail. 

Bedankt iedereen voor de aanmoedigingen en mooie woorden. Thx everybody for all the messages on the guestbook. 

Good luck to all the students with their projects. I'll be thinking about you guys when we're out there.

All dogs are looking great. I'm really excited about this team. It's a young group of dogs though and I didn't train them very hard so we're gonna take it easy. Nooo, young students, I'm not gonna win. We're gonna have a lot of fun. 

Sam arrived this morning at the Braeburn Lodge checkpoint even before the handler crew could get there. We had been expecting Sam to rest on the way to Braeburn for at least 2 hours (as he'd planned), but when we got to the checkpoint at 7am, Sam had already been there and hour and fifteen minutes! His run was going so well, the dogs moving nicely, that he decided it might actually be worse to stop and rest a few hours.