02-24-2013, 06:07 PM
Pog - I've no problem with people visiting the summit at all. It makes things difficult for the observatories for various reasons but the observatories don't own the summit, it's a public place. Before we went to remote operations I actually enjoyed talking to the summit visitors while I was outside checking conditions (and taking photos!) although occasionally it became tiresome:
"Do black holes really exist?"
"Have you seen any UFOs?"
"Are you up here every night?"
We've also rescued the odd visitor who had problems (health and car crashes) and in one very sad case tried to resuscitate a visitor who had a heart attack just outside our observatory but ultimately weren't successful (I wasn't there for that one, but we're all trained to try and help).
I'm sure mine is not the only opinion though.
Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/
"Do black holes really exist?"
"Have you seen any UFOs?"
"Are you up here every night?"
We've also rescued the odd visitor who had problems (health and car crashes) and in one very sad case tried to resuscitate a visitor who had a heart attack just outside our observatory but ultimately weren't successful (I wasn't there for that one, but we're all trained to try and help).
I'm sure mine is not the only opinion though.
Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/
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