When I can't actually 'Wander' down to one of my favorite areas, I check out the live video camera at the Barcroft installation -- at 12,000' -- of the White Mountain Research Station, run by the University of California.
Usually nothing too exciting going on within the view, like now:
...but I find it interesting to check out anyway. The anemometer of the weather station is visible, and the propeller is usually whizzing around. When it's really windy the camera shakes.
Sometimes in winter (when the camera is working) you can watch fierce blizzards blowing up there. I frequently see animal tracks in the snow. Here's what it looked like one day this past winter:
There's a light on all night, and once or twice I've seen nocturnal critters running around.
Sometimes humans can be observed in the daytime.
The page seems to work best, most fully-functional, with Internet Explorer (better than Chrome, for example). It may ask your permission to install some kind of active-x add-on, and if so it's safe (and necessary) to say "yes". In the upper left of the screen is a control called "Video Profile", and I find MPEG4/VGA is best. Most of the other controls (like to aim the camera in different directions) are for the real users of the camera and are password protected.
Anyway...something to look at when at a computer.
Usually nothing too exciting going on within the view, like now:
...but I find it interesting to check out anyway. The anemometer of the weather station is visible, and the propeller is usually whizzing around. When it's really windy the camera shakes.
Sometimes in winter (when the camera is working) you can watch fierce blizzards blowing up there. I frequently see animal tracks in the snow. Here's what it looked like one day this past winter:
There's a light on all night, and once or twice I've seen nocturnal critters running around.
Sometimes humans can be observed in the daytime.
The page seems to work best, most fully-functional, with Internet Explorer (better than Chrome, for example). It may ask your permission to install some kind of active-x add-on, and if so it's safe (and necessary) to say "yes". In the upper left of the screen is a control called "Video Profile", and I find MPEG4/VGA is best. Most of the other controls (like to aim the camera in different directions) are for the real users of the camera and are password protected.
Anyway...something to look at when at a computer.
