The morning was cool with patchy low clouds along the shore - especially East of Santa Barbara, By the afternoon, it was sunny and clear with low winds. Laura and I met Cliff Thomas from UCAR (Risk Assessment), and we toured several sites, Then Terry and Brigitte caught up to us around lunch and we continued the site visits.

S9: In the morning, we started with S9, to check the TP01 soil sensor.  All of the soil sensors look well buried, and the cables were traveling under the NR01 sample area, so we did not want to disturb.  We will replace this sensor with an alternate.
Everything else looked good at this site.

S11: S11 was reporting NA  for the last ~ 6 hours, and with its history, we decided to also stop there and make sure everything was OK.
Everything looked good at this site.  I was able to log into the console, and nidas was up. It is possible that the modem was just off-line, so I rebooted the DSM.
The NR01 was cleaned and everything else was inspected.  The clouds were hugging the ridge and swept all the way down to the shoreline.  The picture below is at S11 looking east along the ridge.


ISS2:  We stopped by ISS2, and showed the balloon launching facility, and instruments to Cliff, then waited for Terry and Brigitte to arrive to visit a few more sites.

S13:  We stopped by (Rancho Alegre ISFS site) with Terry and Brigitte while Cliff was on a meeting call back at ISS2
The NR01 ratchet strap was tightened a few clicks; otherwise everything looked good at this site, but we forgot to bring water, so we did not clean the NR01.

ISS3: (Sedgwick) Laura was communicating with John and rebooted an ISS computer that was acting up. 

S14: (Sedgwick) Lowered the mast with Laura and Brigitte operating the winch.  Tried lowering several times, until Chris remembered to remove the guy wire at winch.
Terry got into the action and helped rotated the sonic boom 180 degrees so that it had the correct orientation (occurred at 16:32 PDT)
Raised the mast and tightened all of the guys.
Cleaned the NR01 which did have some bird dropping on it.