Moonrise. Sunset. Beauty all around.
This afternoon around 3:45pm. No matter which direction you looked. Gorgeous.
Time for a short winter break
We took advantage of some ridiculously low airfares and spent 5 days in San Diego--Pacific Beach to be specific, taking long walks on the beach, cruising the boardwalk on bikes and getting our fill of really good Mexican food. Our timing was perfect, it was -4ºF when we left, hit -8º while we were gone, and warmed up to a balmy 16º on our return :)
It's beginning to look a bit like Christmas, and Alaska.
We finally got a bit of snow overnight, maybe 4" of really light, fluffy stuff, so not much help for cross-country skiing, but at least it looks like Alaska again! This is the first real snow we've had since the middle of October.
Don't go aurora hunting after eating a massive Thanksgiving meal ;)
Drove up to Hatcher Pass last night because of a very strong aurora forecast, in the Kp5-6 range, which would have been an aurora storm. Our good friend's two kids that were visiting from Los Angeles really wanted to see aurora while they were visiting Alaska for Thanksgiving, so off we went. We arrived about 10:30pm to clear skies and a brilliant Milky Way, but no aurora at all. So we sat and waited, and waited, and tried to fight off the turkey coma.
We started to get a high film of clouds moving in, but finally some aurora did finally show up around midnight, so at least they got to see some live aurora in Alaska. Fun for all. Home at 2am.
Thankful to live in this magical place.
I nice little show early last night. Started around 9pm, which is really nice :) and went until around 11pm, with one strong burst of action that only lasted about 5 minutes. Evidently there was strong aurora again around 3am
