Day 13: Not so lucky :( . . .edit

I arrived at the institute this morning to find that the fan has gone out on the cryostat machine used to create the temperature gradient needed for the experiments. Unfortunately, we will not get any support on it until tomorrow at the soonest. Looks like we are stuck in the mud....

So I just made it home. I left early since there was nothing for me to do. They were setting up for a group of 40 students to visit tomorrow. I tried to help, but it was taking longer to commute things that it was for them to set up themselves.

The institute is on the top of a hill just outside of town--maybe 3km. As I got to the bottom of the hill I turned toward the mtns instead of town. I had a beautiful ride to the end of the road and discovered some hiking trails. Then as I was coming back into town, I cruised by the ski area and discovered a back way to return to town. It was pretty cool. So I was cruising around for over an hour. To go from my Seven in MT with all my gear, to a cruiser with 85% humidity wearing Carhartt's with flipflops was definitely a challenge. Overall, the day was a wash...