The RLT and its Surroundings

The Telescope Site

	The RLT at sunrise. The ALMA site is below the clouds in the background.
	Panoramic view from Sairecabur's peak. The GPS receiver gave an altitude of 6000 meters, or 19,685 feet.
	The full moon setting at sunrise.
	Snow, October 2002.
	Dawn
	A picture taken to the south at sunrise.
	The two SAO containers from afar.
	The RLT and I

Neighbors

	Several pictures of the Japanese ASTE telescope, a 10m telescope on nearby Pampa la Bola.
	A resident of the road to Sairecabur.
	The smoking volcano Lascar, which last erupted in 2001, with grazing llamas.

The road to the site

	A ~240 degree panorama taken approximately 25km above San Pedro de Atacama. Visible peaks include: Cerro Colorado, Cerro Sairecabur, Licancabur (very steeply peaked), Cerro Chascon, Cerro Toco, and Lascar, an active (and visibly smoking) volcano (third seam from the right).
	A panorama taken from a turnoff along the road to El Tatio (a geyser). Sairecabur is the peak straddling the rightmost seam.
	A close-up of Sairecabur peeking out from behind a hill.
	A bulldozer clearing the road in August, 2002. The snow is 1.5 meters deep here. Marcos Diaz and Ray Blundell provide scale.
	The bulldozer clearing a drift, with Sairecabur in the background
	A hike up the snow covered road. Marcos, Ray, and I, left to right.
	Me, standing on 2 meters of snow at an impassible kilometer-18.
	The view of Sairecabur from kilometer 18. Part of the road is visible at the left edge of the rightmost picture.

San Pedro de Atacama

	La Casa de Don Tomas, our home in Chile. Better images of the hotel can be seen at their website
	A nighttime view of the main street in San Pedro.
	Views of the sun setting on the mountains, taken from San Pedro.

Night Sky

	A 15 minute exposure of the south celestial pole.
	A 12 minute exposure of the sky around Licancabur.