It was a long, hard, roller-coaster climb up to the 6200ft pass, but the juniper forest at altitude was delightful. I lunched voraciously on Mexican food at the observatory's cafe, and then learned about how astronomers use spectral analysis to classify stars, not too unlike how we coastal engineers do so with waves; since light is a wave too, I guess I shouldn't be too suprised by the analytical analogues. An astronomer at the observatory (which is part of UT-Austin) also said that it's the least light-polluted spot in the continental US.
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