{"id":11721,"date":"2018-01-16T22:57:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T06:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=11721"},"modified":"2018-01-17T00:13:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T08:13:05","slug":"walking-on-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2018\/01\/16\/walking-on-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking on Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Northern Lights in hiding we’ve turned to other activities – yesterday’s adventures included a trip down memory lane involving a visit to the Knotty Shop<\/a>, a stop in North Pole<\/a> to send mail and giggle about the postmark, and a visit to the Chena Lakes Recreation area where we roamed over the frozen lake. The lake’s ice was thick enough to not only support a small army of ice fishing huts, but also apparently strong enough to support the pickup trucks that drove across the lake and parked next to the huts.<\/p>\n

In a bizarre twist, today Fairbanks is experiencing highly unusual temperatures that are nearly up to 30°F, while San Antonio and much of the Southern United States is getting a rare ice storm. Ironically the host at our B&B told us that while Fairbanks never shuts down due to cold, the warmer temperatures bring ice (we’ve got freezing rain here tonight), and thus when it gets warm<\/i> in the winter they usually end up cancelling school because things melt and then re-freeze, making the roads treacherous.<\/p>\n

Given the lack of Auroras I don’t have any exciting photos from the past few days, so here a couple more from four nights ago during the Big Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Night<\/div>\n
This photo was taken around 10PM and captures the stars and the glow of the Fairbanks city lights against the clouds. Fifteen second exposure using a 10mm lens.<\/div>\n
\"Aurora<\/div>\n
We didn’t know in advance that the entire sky was going to light up, so I naively thought that this picture, taken around midnight, would end up as my favorite photo of the evening. Fifteen second exposure using a 10mm lens.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the Northern Lights in hiding we’ve turned to other activities – yesterday’s adventures included a trip down memory lane involving a visit to the Knotty Shop, a stop in North Pole to send mail and giggle about the postmark, and a visit to the Chena Lakes Recreation area where we roamed over the frozen … Continue reading “Walking on Water”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,30],"class_list":["post-11721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-northern-lights-2018","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11721"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11733,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721\/revisions\/11733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}