Ben's Hawai'i Pictures
Bolocam Observing Run
December 2001


All photos taken by me with a Nikon CooPix 775 digital camera unless otherwise noted. No alterations have been made except for re-sizing. If some of the exposure times are off, it's because I'm still figuring out how to use this stupid thing.

People:

    Alexey
    Ben (that's me)
    Douglas
    Phil
    Sam
    Sunil



Mauna Kea:

    Hale Pohaku (aka HP, ~9500 ft. above sea level):

        Clouds toward Mauna Loa
        More clouds toward Mauna Loa
        Cafeteria (L-R: Alexey, Sunil, and Phil)
        CSO office
        Walkway between dorms and main building (HP happened to be inside a cloud that day)
        My dorm with clouds
 

    Summit Road:

        Sam, Douglas and Sunil fixing a flat tire (second flat in a week and a half)
        Flat tire with view of Mauna Loa
 

    Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (aka CSO, ~13,300 ft. above sea level):

        CSO dome
        CSO dome with other domes
        CSO 10-m dish (front)
        CSO 10-m dish (back)
        View of Keck and Subaru domes
        View of Mauna Loa from inside dome
        Sunset
        The galley
        Control room
        Electronics (I'm the lucky guy who had to screw in all those D-connectors)
        Mouting the Bolocam dewar



Saddle Road (on the way to the beach):

   Descriptive e-mail text documenting trip to Kona

    Lava fields
    Mauna Kea view
    Another Mauna Kea view
    Mauna Kea from a distance
    Dust storm
    Volcanic cone
    Bizarre rainbow
    Road writing - white coral rocks brought up from the beach on black lava



Beaches:

    Hapuna beach
    Hapuna beach wind (taken by Alexey with his Sony digital camera)

    Unknown beach:

        Group photo
        Sam and Douglas
        Me
        Rainbow and creepy guy making drum from coconut tree
        Silouetted palms
        More siloutted palms (my favorite pic so far)
        Warning sign
        Back to the car
        More road writing: Hawai'ian state flag



Winter in Hawai'i:

    Summit Road:

        Way up
        Way down
        CSO dome
        Cool cloud picture taken by Alexey

    CSO:

        Snow outside dome
        Alan (from day crew) shoveling white stuff (note chains on tires)
        Snow inside (!) dome
        Me outside dome (on a nicer day)

    Coming soon:

        Insane snowboarders
        More insane snowboarders