| Crooked Creek Station (CCR) | |||
virtual tour of WMRS facilities,
continued |
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| 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 60 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 lab spaces that can be renovated if needed (see WMRS staff). | |
View of Clarence Hall Lodge facilities
from the North (6-19-04) |
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View of main buildings (dorm, lodge, lab
rooms) from parking lot. 5-22-04 |
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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. |
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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 (see description)
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 satellite modem for backup
internet communication. |
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Upstairs, the lodge also has two bedrooms and a bathroom. |
An outdoor deck with picnic tables is located betweent
the lodge and the dorm. |
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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. |
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The Bristlecone cabin actually consists of four separate
cabins. |
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Cabin B has a kitchen |
Each has its own bathroom. |
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Four lab spaces have been prepared, and can be equipped
to meet individual researchers' needs. |
This is the lab building from the east. |
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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. |
| virtual tour of WMRS facilities, continued... | |