Crooked Creek Station (CCR)
 
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Barcroft tour
Barcroft observatory tour
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"Virtual Reality" panoramas showing Crooked Creek facilities and surrounding area
virtual tour of WMRS facilities, continued
The Crooked Creek station is located in the Bristlecone/Limber Pine forest at an elevation of 10,200'. This is WMRS' most modern facility, and sleeps 50 persons at full capacity. The facility includes a classroom, computer room with broadband internet, a backup satellite internet connection, and a smaller meeting room. A full kitchen and dining facility operates during the open season, generally between June 1 and October 31. There are also four dry lab spaces.
View of Clarence Hall Lodge facilities from the North (6-19-04)
View of main buildings (dorm, lodge, lab, left to right) from parking lot. 5-22-04
View of buildings from hill east of station 8-20-09 (click on photo to enlarge)
When you enter the lodge, the main downstaris room is the dining hall. 5-04
The dining hall is often used during the day as a work space. The kitchen is in the rear.
The classroom takes up most of the upstairs level of the lodge building. The room to the right of the chalk board has been converted into a computer lab with two computers and a printer. Wireless internet is also available throughout the station.
Two computers linked to the internet via broadband "T1" connection is located in the computer lab, and there is a lounge area with TV/DVD/VCR. There is also a "Hughes Net" satellite uplink for backup internet communication.
One of our research groups, the Bristlecone Pine Demography Project from UCSC, has fixed up the lab space at Crooked Creek and made it functional. The north lab has tables, counter space and cabinets. 7-31-09
The north lab also has a walk-in closet (to the right behind the geen cabinets). Currently, the laboratory space at Crooked Creek lacks functional plumbing (i.e. is dry lab space only).7-31-09
The middle lab also has a walk-in closet, around the corner to the left). Herbarium cabinets are on the right. We are assembling a Crooked Creek herbarium collection to supplement the GLORIA project. 7-31-09
The hallway between lab rooms. 7-31-09
This is the south lab. 7-31-09
At one end of the lab building is the so-called "laundry room", now being used as a bedroom. This room has minimal plumbing and may one day be converted into a lab space. 7/31/09
Upstairs, the lodge also has two bedrooms and a bathroom.
An outdoor deck with picnic tables is located betweent the lodge and the dorm.
The dorm has six sleeping rooms and 4 bathrooms, and sleeps 38 total. This is dorm 1, one of the downstairs rooms.
Upstairs in room A are 4 beds, plus a large closet.
The Bristlecone cabin actually consists of four separate cabins.
Cabin B has a kitchen
Each has its own bathroom.
The back of the lodge building. The shop and garage area is to the left.
View north of the station, showing the storage building, pond, and the propane tanks.
   
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