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Base Camp & Swift Trail: Prior to your arrival / Dec 19, 2019 / P Gabor ✔✘
homebooking their observers' rooms at VATT with Gary Gray <garyg1 [at] email.arizona.edu>
homecheck road conditions; best call Base Camp, working hours: 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday except holidays; phone number (928) 428-2739
homereacquaint yourself with instructions at mgio.arizona.edu, especially, the Orienatation Package but note that some of the information is out of date, namely,
1As of April 17, 2015, the US Forest Service no longer issues “secondary entry letters” into the Red Squirrel Refugium to anybody who is conducting routine work at the observatories either as a service provider or an observer, incl. people from outside the University of Arizona family.
2Radio System Units Assignment (p. 18): the latest can be found here.
Base CampVATT stuff is in the “Exterior Lock Box (p. 5): pick up one small brass key for the road gate “Master” padlock and one VATT two-way radio unit.
Base CampTurn on the two-way radio unit and make sure you are on “MGIO RPT”. Your call sign will be “66” (which is “VATT visitor observer” - see the list linked above).
Base CampAlso pick up one of the two VATT Car Emergency packages in the shed behind the office building at Base Camp (ask for directions).
vatt/base_camp_and_swift_trail.1576772822.txt.gz · Last modified: 2019/12/19 09:27 by paul