Today was a late start due to rain -- we started work about noon and ended about 5PM so that Kurt could run into town for misc. hardware. Nevertheless, in these 5 hours we erected all but one of the A towers (since A17's parts couldn't be moved up the gully due to wet ground), the C tower, and the first 3 (of 7 total) sections of the main tower. We also placed the rad stand. So...only 5 more tower sections to go!
We started the day by noticing a diamondback rattlesnake (Kurt estimated 5' long) coiled up near tower C. The poor thing was cold and tightly coiled. Chris downloaded a photo. We all watched our steps much more closely after that!
Weather is expected to be good into the weekend. We expect the base trailer to arrive tomorrow morning.
P.S. I've put a few photos in this Wiki, but added more to the bottom of the SCP WWW page: http://www.eol.ucar.edu/deployment/field-deployments/field-projects/scp/shallow-cold-pool-scp-field-project