Site visitation

Possible spade locations

The SPADE team visited several possible site locations after the 8th GEWEX open science conference on May 11th and 12th.  

On the afternoon of May 11th, the team visited Fortress Mountain, located in the Alberta Kananaskis country, home to the future location of the Eastern SPADE experiment site. Fortress Mountain is situated on the eastern side of the continental divide and is ideal location due to its accessibility and longstanding reporting through the U of Sask. Cold Water Laboratory.

​Possible sites located on the western side of the continental divide were visited the following day on May 12th, including

Nipika Resort
Storm Mountain Lodge
Kootenay Crossing
Vermilion Crossing

All possible SPADE locations are listed in the map below:

Kootenay Crossing

Map of possible SPADE site locations indicated by yellow triangles