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cardio is hard
Day two, elliptical. Â Barely lasted 5 min. Whew. Four months until the Denali trip, need to get my legs and knees in shape for all the hiking I want to do there and all summer.
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Snow shoes with my first ever car lockout
On Sunday afternoon I headed out to Chena Lakes to do some shoe showing with my friend Sarah. I nearly canceled since it was -10F earlier in the morning, but by the time we got out there it was just … Continue reading
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Feb 2: Groundhog Day Aurora
Last night there was a G1 with minor geomagnetic storming that started really early in the evening and was even seen at dusk around 6:30, so I waited and watched the aurora cam provided by R&M Photography (Ronn & Marketa … Continue reading
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Dec 21: luminary walk, aurora, bridges and a train
I drove to Denali National Park on solstice to take part in their first annual Luminary Walk with my friend Susan. It was about -15F when we arrived, but we did the mile-long walk anyway! There were a lot more … Continue reading
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Nov 30: finally aurora and “Battery Exhausted†at -13F
Monday night around 8pm I headed to pick up a friend in North Pole, which was under a stinky cloudy of wood burning stoves’ smoke haze that made me cough and curse about air quality, and then we went to … Continue reading
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Snowshoeing, Chena Lakes   Â
My friend Caroline and I headed out to Chena Lakes for a short snowshoeing adventure on Saturday after Thanksgiving. Considering we had plans to clean the snow and cover the top of my RV with a tarp prior to this … Continue reading
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Fisheye and faint aurora
Over the holiday weekend a friend of mine was house-sitting out by Moose Mountain, off Murphy Dome Road, and invited me to come out and enjoy the dark sky and a hot tub with her any night she was there. … Continue reading
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Showshoes, drinks and hot water at Chena Hot Springs
Yesterday I spent a wonderful day outside after 10 days of having a nasty cold and being mostly housebound. My friend Caroline and I went to Chena Hot Springs and snowshoed the Monument Trail, rumored to be “under three miles†… Continue reading
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Sundogs and freezing perlgurl
Gorgeous day of -15F and this sundog was visible for several hours from several different locations in my travels, but I made the mistake of not taking my camera today as I was out running errands all day so I … Continue reading
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Lightspeed, flurries and clouded aurora, or why we kept saying last night, “This is bulls**t.”
Skunked by the weather last night! Drove 250 miles, planning to head to Donnelley Dome to get out from under the snow and clouds that were plaguing the interior, and we still couldn’t escape the clouds or flurries. According to … Continue reading
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