Stuck in the snow, not behind a computer.

Snow sampling continues as the winter moves on…Storms come and go in the mountains and down in town, but the cold isn’t always coming with it. Not a big deal to drive in the rain, but it makes pretty unfavorable driving conditions up in the snow. Last week, Dwight, Shea and I spent over an hour getting the Jeep unstuck, turned around pointed downhill. After that we got a nice hike in the sun up the hill to BoJo. Once we got there we had a quick lunch and took our samples. On the way back we got dumped on by some driving fluffy snow. After sampling at The Lounge about two inches accumulated.

Our sampling structure has been changed as we have made the Deer Ridge transect permanent, we will go on a three day sampling cycle hitting the mid, high, and transect sites…which now all have maps to accompany them…check out the study area map.

Finally I was able to get the aerial photo adjusted to fit onto a GPS, but getting it to appear in the program is another story. Still working on that one.

It’s a bummer to miss the trip to Newport with the nearshore group (but I do get to make some maps for them to use in presentations). The snow crew gets to go to Hood River, OR for the Western Snow Conference to present a little bit of the NASA work as well as our analysis of the Deer Park snow course and the affect of the 1988 fire and snow interception…we started to look at that, but normalizing it for climate data might be a challenge.

Also we are looking into attending and presenting at the Washington GIS Conference in Seattle.