Swasey Peak Register

The Swasey Peak Register
(The mailbox atop Swasey Peak)

Swasey Peak, at sunset.
This picture was taken from a location near-ish the "campground" area at the end of the road on the day that the contents of the register were "captured" digitally.
**Click on the image for a full-sized version.**

This page contains a documentation of the register (inside a mailbox) on Swasey Peak - the highest peak in the House Range (about 40 miles west of Delta, Utah) - as of October 22, 2010. This register is contained within a glass jar housed in a metal mailbox nestled in a pile of rocks on the summit. Why do this? I happened to be up there on that date - to look for a GPS receiver that I'd dropped a few months earlier (no, I didn't find it...) and while I was waiting on the peak for the rest of my party to arrive.

Why Swasey? It was from (near) this peak that, in October of 2007, an experiment was successfully completed in which we transmitted signals, through the atmosphere, using optical means and those efforts are described elsewhere on this, the Modulated Light.org web site.

As noted in the document below I simply took pictures of each page. The framing is slightly different and the lighting changed as clouds moved overhead. The pictures are of somewhat reduced resolution and are compressed to make the file size reasonable, but everything should be quite readable.

**Top Left:** The survey marker atop Swasey Peak. This picture has been adjusted to increase contrast.
**Top Right:** The mailbox containing the hiking register on Swasey Peak
**Bottom Left:** Gordon, making an entry into the register on October 3, 2007
**Bottom Right:** A view to the north from near the peak on October 22, 2010 - the day the register in the mailbox was "captured."
**Click on an image for a larger version.**

The register:

Swasey Peak Register - This is a visual representation of the entries in the log book found in the mailbox atop Swasey peak. This is a .PDF of approximately 10 megabytes in size, so be warned! It is recommended that you right-click on the above link and save it to your computer.

More information on Swasey Peak and the House Range in Utah:

Return to the KA7OEI Optical Index page.

If you have questions or comments concerning the contents of this page, feel free to contact me using the information at this URL.