First taste of arctic winds

With 50 km/hr winds blowing snow against us for the 700 metre walk to the lab, today was the first day I felt a deep appreciation for my gigantic parka with a fur rimmed hood that sticks out half a foot from my face.  For the two weeks that I have been here, it has been around - 30 or lower with very little wind.  So as long as you were layered up it was fine being outdoors, but today definately required the balaclava and hood zipped up all the way.  With those winds work today at the GAW lab was more challenging, but it was actually pretty fun facing them to get the wednesday air samples (which require walking into the wind about 50-100 paces from the lab). However, the wind at our backs did speed things up a bit while pulling our sleds full of air sample cases on the walk back from the lab to our truck. 
On the drive back from the lab I stopped to try and take a picture of the snow blowing along the 'road' back to the base: