Good article.
But I'm surprised you haven't thought about it before given all the times the one at Corona Pass has been down since it was first set up, mostly due to the conditions up there in winter.
There's a couple others that are down more. Monarch is regularly jacked up. The microwave T1 pooped to the RCO site southwest of Denver at Badger Mtn a few years ago mid-winter and it wasn't repaired until spring thaw. Pretty common.
And I'm hurt that Murph doesn't even think about this stuff. Heh. I've been to a few of the State sites working on things, and a bunch of other nearby non-State sites. State folks do a pretty nice job on their sites.
Many others are pretty run down. Especially the old Motorola and AT&T sites. Shadows of their former selves.
It's a hell of a lot easier in summer (well the three months of summer at those sites anyway...) to get there, especially if you don't have access to a snow-cat.
Snowmobile works but sometimes it's snowshoes and get to hiking...
Most of the volunteer groups that work on stuff at these sites hope there's one who likes that crap for winter. Although I know one guy who decided that renting a JetRanger to get to Mt. Thorodin one winter, was a much more comfortable option. Ha.
In summer there are plenty of us who'll go bash the hell out of our 4x4 vehicles on the USFS access roads. That's way more fun. Hard on vehicles sometimes though, depending on how the "road" is doing that year.
Currently I'm trying to figure out the road to the ADS-B tower near my house on Google Earth. A site I didn't even know was there, and it's in a strange place for a tower site. Also looks tall. Double set of guy wire radii showing in Google Earth.
So curiosity is killing the cat. May have to run over there some afternoon.
Probably get back over in there and find it's gated. But will see.
