Stoughton ? Wearing hard hats, T-shirts and shorts, drillers practiced their work skills Monday afternoon with one big exception. There was no ice.
Training for a trip to the South Pole, the group practiced lowering equipment into a concrete hole at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Physical Sciences Laboratory and wiped the sweat from their faces in the 85-degree heat.
Most have already spent several seasons working during the Antarctic?s austral summer and know that soon, most of their skin will be covered to prevent frostbite. They?re part of the crew installing the IceCube Neutrino Observatory scheduled to finish in December.