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CASCADES - Update - Friday March 4/Saturday March 5, 2005

Well, today was lots more exciting than the last few days, but no launch yet. If you look at yesterday's message or at the "conde-gram" on the real-time spaceweather page of the website you can see that over the next day or two we should be entering a period of increasing activity. It seemed to start tonight, but the aurora was teasing us, never being quite in the right place or following expected patterns. We brought the count down to T-3 three separate times, but each time had to cycle back to T-10 after the aurora went off in the wrong direction or stalled or faded.

Since we closed a little early last night, some of our group went off for a drive today north of Fairbanks and the rocket range. The town of Central, Alaska is about 2 hours north of Fairbanks. The pictures today are from Marc Lessard and Paul Riley's trip up there today.

In the White Mountains near eagle summit approximately 3400 feet up.

Freezing co-investigator on the way up the White Mountains. Taken right near the end of the tree line.

Super snow removal system, looking South towards Fairbanks.

Going downwards towards Central.