Dwight and I took our last trip up to Hurricane Ridge to collect depth and SWE values from the snowcourse we inherited from Bill Baucus of Olympic National Park. It was a beautiful day with clear skies and sunny weather. We stumbled upon some bear tracks while we were out there. He didn't seem too big, based on paw size, but his tracks looked like he was in a hurry. We also got our May 1st(or close to it anyway) snow samples for DNA analysis. We sterilized the shovel, dug two snow pits, got samples of surface and bottom snow, labeled everything and toted it back the the freezer at the college. It'll be exciting to see what we find and if there's anything difference between these and our samples from April 1st. We should be starting our extraction soon so tune back in for the results.
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