When it rains, it pours—five planes arrived last week at the Pole. The South Pole station population tripled, and many of the new arrivals were IceCubers. The two new winterovers for the upcoming season, Camille and Alicia, were warmly welcomed out on the ice by the outgoing winterovers, Joe and Ilya, with a fancy, cardboard sign and all. IceCube’s incoming and outgoing winterovers generally have some overlap time together at the Pole in order to train and hand over duties. While together last week, the four winterovers fit in time for a few group photos. Out at the IceCube Lab, they stopped to take a photo in front of a large snowdrift on a nice, clear day. At the IceCube Upgrade drill camp, where action continues, they got up on top of a container for another fun photo opp.
