What can you do on a normal day in mid-march in Northern Norway? Skiing or snowshoe-walking… (pubs are too sparse and expensive )
As we had to wait quite some days for the weather to clear up a bit, we were quite thrilled that even some rays of sun made it towards us
So we took the chance and did some hiking around a lake
Spring is coming – slowly but steadily
removing all old ice
Yet, despite it being 5° warm the wind is chilly and the felt temperature around -1°, so you need to warm up quite often
The grip is loosening
“Mountain range”
And isolated peaks
As night approached the sky cleared… Seeing the Aurora indicators at 4 (out of 10) gave us even more hope – and then around 8pm it started…
First only a bit
Then getting more and more intense
sky in glow
showing all kind of formations
stretching over the entire sky
parallel bands of light
just pure beauty
and illumination
The mountain is throwing light out
then towards the end of the show the aurora got much stronger
real dancing dragons in the sky
a double helix
swirls of light
and a shape
which is just beautiful
falling down again
gas hobs
and smoke rings
different colours as well
the final showdown
Wow – that surely was an amazing show which lasted around 2h; afterwards the sky stayed clear and a faint bright glimmer remained, but the “aurora disk” turned away as the earth rotated outside the proton eruption of the sun.
Anyhow the next day was just spectacular
Sheer sunshine
Glittering snow
Yes, getting very, very much down… (into the snow )
Another frozen lake which we didn’t want to cross…
with beautiful rocks emerging from the snow and ice
the distant mountain range in full brightness
and the wind blowing
Pristine snow fields – perfect for hiking
and viewing
birches, birches, birches…
Our classical tea break
with the obvious way behind and long shadows of the later afternoon
At night the climate got back to “normal” – which means rather windy. Around 30 – 40 m/sec (approx. 100 – 140 km/h) wind speed is normal and all people who used the day for a time out had some trouble coming back.
This skipper (brrrr… sailing in Northern Norway in March…) had to try for approx. 3h to get past the point due to strong currents and winds.
Here you can see how windy it really got…
So we decided to stay inside in our last night in Norway and watch the reflections of the fire
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