Today I go the pleasure of visiting KHO again. We went up to cover the instrument domes due to the fact that the observing season is now over due to the fact that with the sun always up you can no longer preform measurements and collect data on the aurora or atmosphere. This did mean that I got to ride in the band wagon again!

So even by the time we got up to the station it had already been a good day. It was interesting on the drive up that the amount of snow that had melted was seriously noticeable. A large section of the road up to KHO had melted but unfortunately not enough to drive up.... So once we got up there our job was to place metal covers over the clear acrylic dome's. This is important because during the summer they can have sand storms up here and it is important to try and protect the domes and not scratch them. So we had to cover the domes as shown below.

To do this we had to haul the covers out from the back of KHO and walk them down the hallway such that we could pull them up onto the roof with a rope.

There were also two different sizes of domes so after hauling up about 20 smaller domes we got to hall up 4 large domes for the larger instruments. After a few hours of work and of course a long lunch the KHO roof now looked like this.

Throughout the day we had beautiful blue skies to make the work all the better. It will always be a pleasure to venture up to KHO and I only hope I can someday see if in full operation during the winter, until then I can settle for this.