The ski run was completely cut through in two places, the Gap and Observation Hill almost bare, a great bare slope on the side of Arrival Heights, and on top of Crater Heights an immense bare table-land.

How delighted we should have been to see it like this in the old days! The pond was thawed and the #confervae green in fresh water.

The hole which we had dug in the mound in the pond was still there, as Meares discovered by falling into it up to his waist and getting very wet.
On the south side we could see the Pressure Ridges beyond Pram Point as of old--Horseshoe Bay calm and unpressed--the sea ice pressed on Pram Point and along the Gap ice foot, and a new ridge running around C.Armitage about 2 miles off.

We saw Ferrar's old thermometer tubes standing out of the snow slope as though they'd been placed yesterday.

Vince's cross might have been placed yesterday--the paint was so fresh and the inscription so legible.
The flagstaff was down, the stays having carried away, but in five minutes it could be put up again.