I had forgotten that I meant to try and take some photos of the actual facilities on this glacier trip! I still haven't taken any photos inside the building. I'm not very inspired to take photos inside. But we did fly directly to the facility this time (instead of getting dropped off at the bottom of the glacier due to fog) so I got some pics from the helicopter.
The Thomas Training Center is miraculously perched on the top of a cliff. It sits on bare rock, cliff to one side, glacier to the other.
It's a cute little compound with a pool where we pump (and filter) water from. Last week it warmed up enough that the ice plug in the pool melted out and the water all drained by the end of the week. It better snow/rain before we go up again in September!
There's the main building but there's also a scattering of convexes (I would call them box cars, but everyone else calls them convexes so we'll go with that). The one to the left and in front of the house is the tool shed, then there's two cuddled up together to the right of the house and in the foreground. The left one of those is where we wax our skis and the right one is where we store the garbage until we fly it home. Up on the hill behind the house is the generator convex and the water tank. The upstairs of the house is all bedrooms with a common room at the top of the stairs where the weights are. The smaller part of the building on the left is the (composting!)bathrooms/showers/sauna. The lower left front corner is the kitchen. The lower left back corner is the coaches' room. The lower right back corner is a corner with couches & tv. The lower right front corner is the dining room.

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