Fieldwork, fieldwork, and more fieldwork...

Atalie is looking for a job (sent in a bunch of applications a couple weeks ago) and has her first interview for a part-time job today!  Yay!  Other than that, I've been pretty busy doing fieldwork several times a week.  The snow and rain scheduled for this week will likely put a stop to that for a little bit.  Here are some pictures from my time in the field:

Atalie snapped this at end of day on our trip up to Truckee, CA for avalanche beacon training.  This is just before Donner Pass.

Hiking back to the snow machines in Tahoe NF.

Installing a datalogger box on the side of a hill in Tahoe NF.

Oops.

The snow melted out too much for us to just drive over this road blocker so we had to cut it.

Some water in the bottom of one of our meteorological station boxes froze together all of the wiring.  It made sorting out which wires went where difficult.

One of our snow depth sensors ("pingers") with the boom on the left side broken.

Trenching and burying wires is made more difficult with snow cover- but it had to be done.

Jason, another field technician, helping bury cables.