Left Boulder around 10, got to the site by 3:30 with a stop at RMBL to grab the ladder and try to get into the lab building (no luck). The road to RMBL is mostly clear, the road to kettle ponds is mostly still covered in snow. There's at least a chance that the current snowpack at the site will be there all winter, so we're using the official paths to access towers and guy points while minimizing tracks inside the triangle of d, ue, uw. Currently the site is mostly snow-covered, some parts significantly deeper than others:
Took guy wire tensions on all towers (added to tower page – they appear to be holding well) and climbed uw to add the heated sonic at 3m. I'll let Steve fill in the other stuff he took care of while I was making a hash of cable management for the CSAT3BH.
Other tasks:
- Flipped 1m.uw sonic head about 16:40. Followed Jacquie's suggestion to power down during the change, so it would be apparent in the data. Will update the cal file after finishing this blog.
- Moved the network switch power on cb and cl to the DCDC output, to avoid inadvertent pio power cycles (especially with the snow pillows on cb).
Lost sunlight around 4:30 and was getting too cold to work by 5:30. Back out tomorrow to do the rest of the site visit tasks.
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Steve Oncley
Barbed wire fencing is down, laying on the ground on the outside of the fence line. Steps are also down (I didn't notice whether the game camera was relocated). NOAA rad cleaning box is removed.