This past thursday my crack team (Chris and Dwight) and I headed up to the top of Deer Ridge to do a little snow sampling and weather station construction. The not so fun part of putting a weather station together at the top of a five mile+ hike is getting it there. Luckily I was able to delay packing my bag in the parking lot long enough for Dwight to grab the heaviest part of the station, thereby saving your cyber hero the discomfort of carrying it himself. My plan wasn't as effective as I'd hoped it would be, as there was still enough heavy items to go around. Not to complain, the day was beatiful, I had skis on my feet (partway anyhow), and we ended up with a very productive day; four snow courses sampled and one weather station constructed. Not to mention that Chris and I collected valuable video footage for our vidcast on the water budget model. cough, NASA, cough, cough. We were taught a valuable lesson in improvisation on this trip as well. Even though we forgot the snow tube weighing rack and the main center post for the weather station, we were able to fashion suitable replacements out of a rag and a piece of closet rod. IN YOUR FACE MacGyver!!!!!
