On February 9th, I went downtown to see the start of the annual Yukon Quest dogsled race. It’s a trek through a thousand miles of wilderness in the dead of the Arctic winter, from Fairbanks, Alaska to Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory, Canada. It was a very cold morning in downtown Fairbanks, in the -30s. [...]
Start of the 2008 Yukon Quest Dogsled Race
March 29th, 2008 by Troutnut · 3 Comments
Fairbanks can get kind of cold
March 29th, 2008 by Troutnut · No Comments
Back in January, during one of this winter’s two biggest cold snaps, I drove around and took some pictures. This polar bear ice sculpture is UAF’s greeter: Tags: extreme cold, fairbanks, ice fog, ice sculpture, smog, UAF
The best northern lights I’ve seen yet
March 16th, 2008 by Troutnut · 5 Comments
I’ve seen the aurora borealis several times since moving to Fairbanks, but nothing like this. I routinely check the UAF Aurora Forecast at night, and right around midnight as February 29th, 2008 rolled over into March, the forecast hit a level I haven’t seen it at before: HEAVY+. I looked out my one tiny north-facing [...]
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