A mixed sound film documenting the processes used to measure the snowpack in the Oregon Cascade mountains. Scenes include footage of technicians checking the electronics at an automated snow measuring station adjacent to Irish and Taylor Lakes; technicians measuring snowpack by hand and traveling by ski, snow shoe, snow mobile and Sno-Cat; radio and television journalists reporting on the latest snowpack numbers; and the use of punch card computers to analyze data.
Digitized from a film original held in the Extension and Experiment Station Communications Moving Images (FV 120:200), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.
