i want to see the northern lights

[wayward bob]

i'm nothing if not thorough in my research - the other day i found myself watching go-pro movies of people walking the kungsleden

finally committed and booked everything today - we shall go to the ball

 

[TruXta]

Bon voyage, and here's hoping the Sun plays ball

 

[chilango]

DNT cabins have roofs... And wood burning stoves. And a general air of woodiness... And Norway is the most beautiful place. <starts planning DNT hiking trip>

Routes and cabins - The Norwegian Trekking Association

One I stayed in had its own microbrewery

 

[chilango]

i'm nothing if not thorough in my research - the other day i found myself watching go-pro movies of people walking the kungsleden

finally committed and booked everything today - we shall go to the ball

I'm walking the kungsleden in the summer

 

[Cid]

One I stayed in had its own microbrewery

Where was it?

 

[chilango]

Where was it?

Finse, on the Hardangervidda.

 

[hash tag]

A girlfriend I saw recently has booked a trip to here Aurora Service Tours - Northern lights holidays in Lapland
not cheap, but guaranteed success!

 

[wayward bob]

looks good - it's all the driving around that would rule it out for me. i'm pretty fatalistic about our chances of seeing them - if they come to me it was meant to be

 

[hash tag]

I guess you could opt out of the driving and opt out of the guarantee.

 

[wayward bob]

i've opted into a comfy as fuck cabin they do run skidoo/sledge trips out at nights, maybe we might be able to sneak in on one if there's any action

 

[wayward bob]

so this is tomoz ta for tips urbz

 

[Lazy Llama]

so this is tomoz ta for tips urbz

Good luck!
May the solar winds blow in your favour

 

[2hats]

Arctic auroral activity expected on 8th and 9th March due to a large coronal hole on the Sun. There was a short burst last night over northern Norway.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Have an awesome time, bob!

 

[wayward bob]

Arctic auroral activity expected on 8th and 9th March due to a large coronal hole on the Sun. There was a short burst last night over northern Norway.

heh, i just got an aurora app and as soon as we leave the chances shoot right up

 

[wayward bob]

 

[2hats]

Well they were visible from Shetland last night and very active over Norway and Sweden (Tromsø and Abisko respectively below)

which might bode well.

 

[wayward bob]

we saw them

On the flip side, being a curmudgeonly old git, I am beginning to take solace in several views I have seen expressed whereby the Northern Lights are often ranked as one of the biggest anti-climaxes by some of those who do see them.

they were! they were white and cloudlike and we watched them from a carpark! but it was an empty and dark carpark *very* close to a very cosy cabin, all the family got to see them and raise a sceptical eyebrow before sloping off back to their electronics so i'm calling a win

also there was snow and there were huskies, on my first morning i woke to an arctic hare asleep outside my window and moose meatballs are fucking lush

 

[1927]

My mum flew to iceland at weekend after a longing to see the Northern lights, they haven't put in an appearance yet and they come home tomorrow!

 

[hash tag]

btw thanks for this, looks like we're flying into kiruna if it's still there

Have read about this place. Must be amazing.

A girlfriend I saw recently has booked a trip to here Aurora Service Tours - Northern lights holidays in Lapland
not cheap, but guaranteed success!

Girlfriend home from here at the weekend. Sounds like she saw the lights every night
I considering Tromso early April, not especially for the lights, more for a change of scenery.

 

[hash tag]

C/O Simon Reeve on the America's, this place looks amazing....It's a long way North, it's very high, it is very remote and very difficult to get to
Please can some one pay for me to visit Sheldon Chalet – Experience Grand

 

[chilango]

C/O Simon Reeve on the America's, this place looks amazing....It's a long way North, it's very high, it is very remote and very difficult to get to
Please can some one pay for me to visit Sheldon Chalet – Experience Grand

I've been there

 

[chilango]

 

[hash tag]

I've been there

bastard. bastard. bastard.....

do tell......

 

[chilango]

bastard. bastard. bastard.....

do tell......

Was sat in the Talkeetna Roadhouse discussing plans with my companions. We were mulling over greeting the boat to Kodiak, hopping on the postal plane up to Barrow or seeing if we could get a bush taxi somewhere interesting. Turned out the guy eating breakfast at the next table was a pilot. He offered to fly us up and around Denali (for a price). So we did. Landed on the Ruth Glacier for a wander and the Sheldon Hut was a couple of km away. We didn't go in but it did prompt much talk of future "plans".

Astonishing location. Proper amphitheatre of rock and ice.

 

[chilango]

We also went and rescued an injured climber and airlifted him off the mountain.

 

[hash tag]

Was sat in the Talkeetna Roadhouse discussing plans with my companions. We were mulling over greeting the boat to Kodiak, hopping on the postal plane up to Barrow or seeing if we could get a bush taxi somewhere interesting. Turned out the guy eating breakfast at the next table was a pilot. He offered to fly us up and around Denali (for a price). So we did. Landed on the Ruth Glacier for a wander and the Sheldon Hut was a couple of km away. We didn't go in but it did prompt much talk of future "plans".

Astonishing location. Proper amphitheatre of rock and ice.

It gets worse; you get to see it without having to pay the astonishing price of having to stay over.
I imagine you did not have a night stop and did not see the Northern Lights.

 

[chilango]

It gets worse; you get to see it without having to pay the astonishing price of having to stay over.
I imagine you did not have a night stop and did not see the Northern Lights.

I didn't see the Northern Lights...



...on the Ruth Glacier. I saw them at some natural thermal hot springs somewhere north of Fairbanks.


If it's any consolation I wasn't actually sat in the pools watching the Aurora.


I had got and got changed by the time I saw them.

Hth.

 

[hash tag]

What an amazing place though. green with envy

 

[ice-is-forming]

I've always wanted to see the northern lights, but have decided that for a fraction of the cost ( which means I can stay longer) and a fraction of the distance.. I'm going to go to the south island of new Zealand next year to see the southern lights, Aurora Australis