swatkat
Down these mean skies, a kat must fly!
There's a low altitude site just a couple of miles up highway 4 from the entrance to Snow Ranch. The SAS also uses the 4000 foot emergency helo pad on highway 88, and their high altitude site, on Peddler Hill, also up highway 88. Peddler Hill is a very nice observing site. Dark sky.
But for the most part, the Bruce Orvis scope will be use at public events, like the SAS "Sky Tours," held monthly in a parking lot at Delta College, and another monthly public party, held at Oak Grove Park. (In the past, we've had a number of wheelchair bound guests at the Sky Tours event that were unable to enjoy some of the larger aperture instruments, and our mirror guru and resident telescope making expert decided to do something about that, by putting the eyepiece and focuser at a fixed height, thru the center of one of the altitude bearings. Bingo... Larger aperture, wheelchair accessible.)
Nice! I know the Peddler Hill site. Where the old Iron Mountain Lodge was. Good site.