My coworker was out in the mountains of Idaho surveying remote sites where we are developing network access capability for the Forest Service. The Forest Service recreation folks manage rafting permits at these sites and they are out in the middle of nowhere. One site is about 50 miles from the closest electrical outlet. Another site they had to fly in to with a small plane. We are going to set up access to the internet for them so they can manage permits electronically in real-time. I used to go hang out in the woods a lot but since I’m doing more project management and less solution development Lewis got to enjoy this trip. I did get out to Oregon, Montana, and Pennsylvania this summer and hope to visit those locations again soon.
One of the Forest Service folks that took him out to these locations had to go out and locate a dead body on Sunday after elk hunters came across him. He crashed on his motorcycle a couple weeks earlier on a remote road by himself. News article here.
There is a photo album for each site:
Also be sure to check out the video of them landing a small plane in a remote mountain landing strip.
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