Ripinsky weather station provides data on mountain conditions

Snow caps Mount Ripinsky in Haines in November. (Photo by John S. Hagen)
If you’re heading into the mountains around Haines this winter, you’ll now have a better idea of what the conditions are like before going out. A weather station installed on Mt. Ripinsky last month is now transmitting data back to the web for anyone to use.
A volunteer crew helped carry around 200 pounds of equipment up Mt. Ripinsky on a sunny September day.
“We’ve been planning this project for abo