Helicopter Journey to High Elevation Weather Station

A helicopter was needed to get USGS scientists up to one of their high elevation weather stations for repairs, when the station stopped working during the Sprague Fire, 2017, Montana. 

The Sprague Fire, which burned down the Sperry Chalet (constructed in 1913), burned near Sperry Glacier where the highest elevation USGS weather station site is. At the time, the station had gone down for an unknown reason. The fire management team requested USGS to assess the issue and try to repair the station as it was the closest high elevation site and critical to their fire management operations.