The Haines Borough’s first avalanche-oriented weather station is a couple weeks from going online.
About 10 people climbed up Mount Ripinsky Saturday to assemble the solar-power station equipped with a rain gauge, anemometer and thermometer with an antenna setup to transmit information to the Haines Avalanche Information Center, where it is posted on the organization’s website.
At a later date, the center expects to install a sonic snow-depth sensor at the station, which is on…
