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| ^ Benji and Mike use a corer to make a hole for the frost tube. |
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| ^ Wegahta cleans the mud from the corer between drills. |
^ We
learned that the construction depth for pipes is 33 inches in
Washington, D.C. Our Frost Tube is an equivalent 70 cm. |
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| ^ Setting the outter pipe into the hole we drilled. |
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| ^ Inserting the inner tube filled with sand & water. |
^ A successful project completed! |
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| ^ Tucking in the string and capping. |
^ The frost tube is set next to the GLOBE weather station. |
 12:00 noon - note snow cover on the ground.
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 3:00 pm - same day, same place. Snow cover is almost completely gone. |
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 Feeling the temperature of the frost tube
to see if it feels frozen.
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1/18/2008 Results: We found no frozen zone. Our air temperatures have been in
the 30's and 40's over the past 2 weeks. We had snow, but the ground is not frozen.
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