Oregon Hikers

Many of you have seen this. Who can identify it?

I've seen one of those on Mt Adams. Must be some snow measuring device?

It is from a Snotel site - I believe they are for measuring rainfall. Here is a page describing the various instruments at a snotel site:

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nr ... 2p2_046152

It is interesting to see one up close....

ahhh...

there's an orifice at the top to let in rain and snow. The circular structure is to shield it from wind so that doesn't effect how much water gets into the orifice. It's tall enough to hold one season's worth of rain. I'll have to look at one close up again.

I've wandered into a few of those over the years. Most recently this one just a few days ago:


After a little research, I found that this site is called Calamity.

Don Nelsen wrote: ↑

October 5th, 2018, 1:10 pm

After a little research, I found that this site is called Calamity.

After a little research, I found that you end up in some weird, random places.

Another style of precip gauge.

Oh, sorry, I meant to post those pics in the related active thread. Oops. Well, it's kinda pertinent here, at least it wasn't some random unrelated topic.