Snow!

One of the main projects we have been working on is the installation of a sunscreen (made of a special kind of canvas draped over bars affixed to the backside of the telescope). After four days of work, we finished installing the support bars yesterday. Today we started work on the canvas itself by seeking out a "cherry-picker". We borrowed the device from the Max Plank "APEX" project nearby and, after a considerable effort getting the thing to work, were prevented from attaching the screen due to snowfall, which had accumulated about one inch when we left the site.