Up, up and away!

Earlier this week I got to go on a little adventure through work, to the top of Ricker's mountain. There is a radio antenna up there that also holds a couple of our wireless access points.

After a Quad ride to the top with the boss, we hiked across the ridge line, maybe 3/4 of a mile. Most of it was up hill and across snow drifts. On a couple of occasions I broke through the snow up to my thigh and on one occasion, broke through right into a bog, where my boot got stuck in the mud on the bottom. Luckily it came home with me....

Now you can't see it in this picture but the antenna is on top of the peak you are looking at. This was on the way back down.

That's Joe on the ground making a call to Mike asking if he's ready on the other end. Our plan was to readjust a couple of our AP's to see if we could get a stronger signal down in Stowe.

This is the view from where I am, looking up. The strap with the yellow tags on it on the right side of the picture is what is keeping me from going kerplunk.

Here's a self portrait of a guy with a hat, hanging off some tower on a mountain in Vermont.

Over the weekend when there were the high winds, one of the other antennas on the tower actually snapped off and got tangled in the tower and a local radio stations antenna's.

Not exactly as high off the ground as those two guys you may have seen atop the Empire State Building, but high enough for me, and cool to be able to say I did it at least once.