The weather continued to deteriorate after yesterday, with the wind picking up as we went to bed. They continued to grow stronger through the night and by about 4AM both Jason and I were outside somewhat desperately trying to keep our tents from shredding or blowing away. Fortunately there was not a lot of snowfall associated with the storm at this point, just strong winds and redistribution of snow and dirt on the moraine. After securing and resecurring our sleeping tents and cook and work tents, we decided to take down the outhouse tent before it shredded completely. This was the tent we had used for a few years in the past, but it was broken and patched in multiple places and actually took us about 4 hours to set up to the point were a light breeze wouldn’t knock it down. We sat on a cooler in the lee of a work tent most of the rest of the morning, watching as the winds flattened our tents and loosened our tie-downs, hoping none of poles would break, and tightening the lines again. I spent most of the time in between this coming up with new tent designs for next year. Unfortunately by the time I felt comfortable enough to open a tent door to grab my camera, the strong winds had subsided, so I don’t have any video to document the event, but the winds continued to gust and rattle things throughout the day and the snows picked up as well, but we had made it through the desperate part at least.