6th January, 1977.

The shift to Camp 14 (Palmer and Frost: same location as Camp 12) entailed tobogganing around from the Northwind Glacier to the Towle Glacier. The Northwind Glacier was inaccessible for approximately 3 km back from the snout because of steep gradients and bare blue ice. By January the whole of the Northwind Glacier was bare ice, far out into the Fry Glacier. At the end of Elkhorn ridge is an area of melt-out pools and sastrugi that could be difficult to cross in January.