Visited Mount Wilson

I've been to Mount Wilson before, but I've never actually taken the guided tour of the facility's biggest telescopes. So last week, I did that! It was genuinely fantastic. The drive up there was nuts - we came up through the cloud layer, which was a bonkers experience all on its own, and something I probably would have paid for even without the Mount Wilson tour. There's a moment on the way to the observatory where you cross a mountain pass, and the clouds were pouring over this ridge from the south to the north side of the mountains in this insane visible torrent of fast-moving mist. It was incredible shit. And then the views from the top were amazing: The tour of the facility was also pretty great. There is not a ton of active science going on up here anymore, and it's mostly being maintained as a kind of science museum. But the telescopes are all still kept completely functional using historical technology... so the Snow solar telescope is still running on a nearly 100-year-old DC…