‘Tis the “MUD” season now.  Yes, the term in its most fundamental form: water plus dirt.  You see signs to this effect on many stores in town. Gives shivers up our spines as we race to finish the install, knowing that we are on a “slippery slope” of good weather.  Most instruments are installed at…

A day of rest has been decreed (or is that demanded…?). This was Octoberwest in Steamboat, so there were many off-road bikers carousing the slopes in various races and competitions. The Aspens are rapidly turning a golden hue, moving down the slopes, preambling the coming winter. The locals have been uniformly friendly and welcoming, some…

The last two days have been very productive. The basic infrastructure at the Valley site has been set up and preparations for instrument deployments are underway. The AMF2 OPS van was deployed at the Thunderhead site and the SWACR was installed on the roof of the OPS van.  Weather has been amazingly cooperative with temperatures in…

Busy and productive few days. Offloaded the four containers at the Valley site yesterday in preparation for moving two of them up the mountain soon. Everything survived trip a-okay, with the AMF2 modules gleaming away in the sunshine during unpack. We feel like proud parents. Today the valley site was “weed whacked” so we could…

Welcome to the AMF2 Blog for STORMVEX! We’re sort of new at this so please be patient with us, as we – your bloggers, Brad Orr, Rich Coulter, and Mike Ritsche – warm up to this new task. Today we arrived in Denver and evaded any delays due to forest fires on our way to…