Onset HOBO Data Loggers

The first time we purchased the Onset Data Loggers, we didn't have smart phones so while we deployed the HOBO temperature logger in October, 2014, we programmed the data logger in a way that had us going back to the vineyard every month to download the data. That didn't seem so onerous until Valentine's Day 2015 when we had to go to download the data. We ordered snow cleats to put on our shoes because of all the snow that was already on the ground which had melted and frozen a number of times.
We couldn't even park near the vineyard because no one (us) had plowed so we had to park the truck at the entry way to our property and walk the 500 yards to the vineyard. Recently, we were telling this story to one of our friends. We made it sound more dire than it really was, but trekking the 500 yards was a real workout. We even bailed on getting the data from the logger deployed in the northeast corner of the vineyard because we felt that we might collapse and no one would find us until the spring thaw.
Here is what we faced in 2015:

Fast forward to Friday, December 8, 2017. We knew that we had a snow storm coming our way on Saturday. The prediction was for 3-6 inches of snow, so we went to the property to secure our new data logger to the line post. We put it at the height of the graft union. This data logger will keep track of both temperature and relative humidity. My husband activated it with his smart phone and said that we don't have to go right up to the data logger to download the data, the download range is good from 100 feet. Not only that, he said that it is good for collecting 1 years worth of data!