Without benefit of poles or much of a slope, I waggled my arms back and forth to get going. |
The images are crystal clear because it is now spring in the frozen wastes of the Martian poles. |
We armed ourselves with axes, crowbars, jemmies, metal poles, sledge hammers, a quart of paraffin and box of matches. |
I unfolded my maps, and to keep them from being blown away in the wind, I weighed them down with ski poles and stuff bags of gear. |
If so, they likely lived in jacales, a traditional structure constructed of vertical poles set into the ground without interrupted sills. |
The equipment used consists of hand held Abney levels, tape measures and ranging poles. |