May 7, 2008 trip to Barcroft and Crooked Creek	Click on photo to enlarge.
Looking up at sheep mountain.	Below Barcroft
Approaching station
Drift in pantry from tiny crack	The 6 1000-gallon propane tanks are in the foreground.
The black hatch is the top of the 13000 gallon empty diesel tank.
The large animal building	The 4 photos make a panorama
generator room	you can walk all the way around the building on the ground- owing to the wind scouring and the heat of the building, even though the snow is 8' deep.
propane regulator outside generator room	small animal building on L, pace lab on R
Ryan in fron of pace lab - you can barely see the door behind him.	Large animal building and sheep pens
sheep pens full of snow
generator room	again - where are the 6 propane tanks?
The pantry wall is the only place the snow seems to pile up against the building	The "tiki bar" is snow free.
scour around the small animal building	behind the small animal building, one of the "hootches" and the new astro-dome
the weather station	the telescope shack is 1/2 buried in snow
the new dome is snow-free - at least on the outside. However, the door could not be opened. peeking in through a hole in the wall I saw the reason - a 3' drift inside the doorway. It appears the door was not secure enough in the wind and a crack opened - letting snow accumulate inside.	the backup weather station. for the second year in a row the wind sensor was damaged over the winter.
Link to movie1 of dome	Link to movie2 of dome door
big drift in front of astro-lab	little one in front of beast lab
pace lab panels survived the winter intact - kudos to Gary, Roger and Ryan for fastening it down last fall.	The propane regulator closeup
	Crooked Creek
CC storage hangar
generator to get rid of
storage hangar needs to be cleaned out	CC temporary sheep pens - for holding sheep until the road opens to Barcroft.